Ecoguardians at Race Rocks Courtney and Tristan, have posted a video on daily recording of the growth of the new elephant seal born Dec 22, 2020 over 12 days. Pearson College Marine Science Field Trips to Race Rocks. after … Continue reading
California Sea Lion’, 4, ‘Two adult males and 2 juvenile males are hauled out on the intertidal island on the SE corner of Great Race Island today. At least one adult male has been around this week.’, ‘Ryan’, ’12:19:52 , … Continue reading
Ryan Murphy took these photos of some of the injured marine mammals showing up at Race Rocks this year . See more on his Fickr Site . I heard a very interesting interview on CBC Radio today dealing with the … Continue reading
Elephant Seal Occurrence at Race Rocks.See the Dec 02- Dec 03 period of the study of the LGL report of 2003:5.1.4 Northern Elephant SealNorthern elephant seals were the least abundant pinniped throughout the study. Maximum daily counts ranged from 0 … Continue reading
June 12, 2008: Erik and Garry checked out and photographed the reported entangled elephant seal on Middle Rock. File opened at http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/taxalab/miroungaa/roped.htm June 17, 2008 One elephant seal on Middle island, and Slash, our favourite old elephant seal hauled out … Continue reading
We were getting so many pictures of our favourite elephant seal, “Slash” that I thought I might as well open up a page just for him. Slash has provided an excellent opportunity to study this very large marine mammal. In … Continue reading
Scarlet , the often reported “Entangled” female Elephant Seal at Race Rocks. This photo was taken at Race Rocks, middle Island, May 2, 2008 by a visitor on a whale watching vessel. Photos taken on June 12 , Close up … Continue reading
Getting up close and personal was one of the things that former Ecoguardian Ryan Murphy was able to do very well underwater.. Consequently he produced the following interesting images from underwater. We frequently encounter Octopus while diving at Race Rocks. … Continue reading