[CINC] CX on June 1

[Lisa Anderson]

FYI-the sea lion that was dumped off at Scorpion is now dead on the beach as
of a few days ago. The consensus  is it should not have ever been dumped at
Scorpion and maybe should have been set out with other sea lions-maybe
Anacapa Island or Santa Barbara Island. Granted the weather was bad-plan B
should have been in place-just wondering who made that decision? 

Lisa

 

From: channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org
[mailto:channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org] On Behalf Of John
Kuizenga
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 11:49 AM
To: Joel Justin; CINC
Subject: Re: [CINC] CX on June 1

 

Capt. Dave called Ann and Sam Dover of the Channel Islands Marine Wildlife
Institute from the CX early yesterday (6/3) afternoon re. their recently
released Sea Lion, now on the pier/rocks at  Scorpion Anchorage.   
They're now aware of the situation and will be doing what they can to
rectify it, which most likely will entail relocating the animal.  JK 



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From: "Joel E. Justin" <j_bar_j at hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:26:34 -0700
To: CINC <channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org>
Subject: Re: [CINC] CX on June 1

Dick,

I think we had your little sea lion on the pier at SCI today. I noticed a
small sea lion hauled out on the beach west of the pier as the 9:30 boat
arrived. As Tiffany was doing the camper orientation, he (she) climbed up to
where all the camping gear was and started poking around it. It had
everyone's attention and was obviously not afraid of people. Not knowing
it's history at the time, we couldn't figure out what it was doing! We did
all we could to keep the visitors away from it, but that was hard as it kept
coming up to people. Finally the crowd dispersed and it went to sleep on a
rock right where the pier connects to the land. We relayed the tag number
(23046) to Capt. Anthony who was moored. He radioed the CX and they
confirmed that it was the rehab sea lion you released on Wed. As the 10:30
boat was arrived, it perked up and started heading down the pier. There were
some kayaks stacked along the railing and I used them to block his further
progress. It decided to try to go between the kayaks and the edge and
finally decided that wasn't going to work, so looked down at the water and
dove right in! Everyone on the Vanguard was watching and cheered when it hit
the ater and swam slowly around. Fortunately, it swam away and wasn't seen
until departure time, when it was a it with the 4th grade school group
waiting to depart. It's pretty challenging keeping people away from this
little guy as he obviously has no fear of humans and is quite adorable. It
makes enforcing the MMPA difficult. We put the sign out to try to help.
Hopefully it figures out that he should be a little more afraid of people
and will go on its way. If not, it may have to be relocated because hanging
around Scorpion will not be good for it in the long run. Do you have any
idea of the sex and age of this little sea lion?

Joel...



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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:24:11 -0700
From: dbellman28 at gmail.com
To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org
Subject: [CINC] CX on June 1

The bottom line from today's trip aboard the Condor Express:  

*	one pod of very "frisky" common dolphins 
*	two Humpbacks; a cow-calf pair 
*	6 Blue Whales with numerous surrounding spouts

Today's trip included roughly 45 passengers, with a large contingency of
British and Scandanavian (Finland, Sweeden, Denmark) along with residents of
Florida, Oklahoma, Colorado and a smattering of Californians.  Captains Matt
and Dave headed the CX east in hopes of avoiding the winds that were to be
building in the western portion of the channel.  Our initial sighting was
the pod of very frisky, aka very amorous common dolphins.  Outstanding looks
with a significant amount of mating behavior taking place. Our next sighting
was the cow-calf pair of Humpbacks.  Passengers were treated to numerous
looks.  However Sally Eagle on PID was not presented with many photo-ops of
tail flukes.  Moving further east towards the east end of Santa Cruz where
there have been sightings of Blues.  We did, indeed, encounter Blues at
about the same time the wind that was supposed to be in the west and not
pick up till late in the day moved east and picked up early.  Captains Matt
and Dave worked diligently to take us back into the weather to get looks at
the Blues of which there were more than the 6 that were documented.  We also
released a juvenile California Sea Lion that have been rescued from (true
story) the living room of a home approximately 1/2 mile from the beach.
Amazing.  The trip back was rugged to say the least.  With spray reaching
all uncovered portions of the boat there was no way those affected with the
mal de mer could deal with their malady at the rail. The last dose of over
the wheelhouse spray occurred as we reached the green harbor buoy!!!  Almost
the entire load was in the cabin and Brooke was busy meeting people needs.
In addition to Sally on PID, Laura Shelton was the other naturalist.  

Dick 


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