In late JULY of 1999, two sections of the summer class in Environmental Studies at Royal Roads University ( 47 students) went on field trips to Race Rocks. Royal Roads Instructors Norm Healey and Bev Hall worked with the students . These are some images taken by the students on the trip :
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- The students arrive at Race Rocks. Note the number… we no longer have groups this size there at that time of year
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- Pearson College Instructor Garry Fletcher and Shore-front manager Chris Blondeau.
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- Mike and Carol Slater, MPA Guardians meet the students at the docks
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- Work by the students of the Royal Roads Environmental Management Class – Summer, 1999
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- –PEG 15- Bearing 285 degrees This area has a fairly constant slope for the 15 meters over a vertical range of 3 meters.
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- Algal assortment
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- Tidepool algae and invertebrates
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- Some detailed belt transect work.
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- Mossy Chiton with attached algae symbiont
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- The Shore group view. Norm took part of the group up the tower for bird and mammal behavior studies.
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- viewed from the tower, sea lions hauled out on middle island
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- Viewed from the tower -harbour seals hauled out on the South Rocks