Race Rocks CAS week 2021, including Wildlife Census

Posted on Saturday,October 30, 2021 by Derek Sterling

8 students, 2 elephant seals & over 1200 sea lions for 1 week

The Ecological Reserve hosted instructor Laura Verhegge and 8 IB students from Pearson College for 5 days of learning, exploring, and fun!

Ecoguardian Derek also included some naturalist-level sharing of information about Race Rocks, pinnipeds, bull kelp, and even great views of humpback whales and Southern Resident Killer Whales (Orca)!

: Introduction to Race Rocks

: Small bulb, Big light!

: The generator room

: Servicing the Batteries

: Fluid level check

: Fluid top-up

: Bull Kelp discussion

: Showing the stipe

: Westcoast fashion!

: Assembling the new composting barrel

: Ready to run

: Moving driftwood for firewood

: Salinity and Temperature measuring

: Deploying

: Student doing the reading

: Cetacean discussion

: Identifying Individual Orca

: Everyone enjoying the sightings

: The crew (-1)

: Sothern Resident Killer Whales (Orca)

And the students did the Wildlife Census

Still not swimming

Posted on Tuesday,March 12, 2019 by Laas Parnell

Weather

Visibility: 15 Miles
Wind: 0-15 SE
Sky: Overcast
Water: Flat

Boats/Visitors

A couple of small tours from the college the past few days
there have been some ecotour boats out there as well

Maintenance

Lately, I’ve just been trying to get that water tank filled

Ecological

The pups still have not gone into the water at all other than day Nemo was in the puddle
the alpha is still here but no other males that I’ve seen
not very many sea lions, I would say around 100
quite a few geese, they will start nesting in a couple of weeks so I’m not looking forward to that
there has also been an increase in seagulls