[CINC] 9-30 IPCo trip to Scorpion

[Catherine French]

Nice report, Larry. The Rissos are a great sign of squid. The oh so knowledgeable Steve Silvas of IPCo told me about the Humbolt squid that Don Gillies mentioned in his report at Scorpion earlier this week. Kids were trying to send the egg-laying squid back to sea as they were beaching themselves. When the squid lay their egg sacks, they beach themselves to die. Akin to what salmon do after spawning. So, if any of us observe this we should probably explain it is their cycle of life.

On a "busman's" holiday to Prisoners yesterday with Capt. Lee and daughter Rachel and her friend Amanda, we observed about forty bat rays near the pier, and saw a couple mating! Also, we sighted some leopard sharks in the area as well. On the island we spotted several SCI scrub jays and a fox crossed our path on the trail on our return from Pelican Harbor where we had seen several Garibaldi swimming in the crystal waters.

Calm seas,

Catherine French

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On Oct 1, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Larry Driscoll <larry.driscoll at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Nice smooth trip ove with Cpt. Dave and crew.  Mostly weekend campers. The weather on SC was beautiful and sunny.  I took the morning hike and Eb took the afternoon hike.  Lola covered the visitor center.  We left a few minutes early on the way back and ran into about 30 Risso's dolphins.  They were breaching, lob-tailing and showed off for quite a while to the delight of all the passengers.
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