From klez18 at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 1 09:52:04 2011 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net (Marty Flam) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] New Zealand Storm Cancels Anacapa Today Message-ID: <1314895924.21811.YahooMailNeo@web180104.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Naturalists, ? per 8:15 a.m. IPCO recording change this (Thursday) morning,?Anacapa?Island 9:30 a.m. day trip cancelled.? I'm told Vanguard would be unable to land due to surge in the Landing Cove?caused by the New Zealand storm.? It was calm on the Condor yesterday off San Miguel while watching the humpbacks rolling the in kelp.? Go figure. ? Marty F., disappointed?assigned day hike naturalist. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sent from i love my iPad From nymeetsca at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 19:31:13 2011 From: nymeetsca at gmail.com (HAL ALTMAN) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 19:31:13 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CONDOR EXPRESS 9/1/11 Message-ID: 3 HUMPBACKS 1 MINKE 150+ COMMON DOLPHINS Details: The two Humpbacks we spotted joined up with a third one later on; the down times were on the long side for Humpbacks, at 9+ minutes; One of the Humpbacks had a funky-looking dorsal tip that hung facing the fluke, along with an unusual white ring that might have been a marking or some sort of barnacle. Capt. Mat put the Condor in just the right position for me to get some primo fluke ID shots. I was joined by the former Miss Leeza Charleboix, now known as Mrs. Leeza Price...as well as newbie Debbie Fedaleo, who did a good job with the orientation. ENJOYING LIFE, Hal Altman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kensword at cox.net Fri Sep 2 13:33:16 2011 From: kensword at cox.net (Kenneth A. Tatro) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:33:16 -0700 Subject: [CINC] IPCO Islander, 1SEPT11 Message-ID: <2C1683ED-7D09-4CDD-A251-01A8BA5BE8BF@cox.net> Hi folks, Another beautiful and different day on the Channel and beyond. Cetacaens: ? 1 Humpback, ... 6 Blues, (with spouts of others, away and around us), ... 2600 (800, 1000 & 800) Common Dolphin Birds: ... Pink Footed Shearwaters ... Sooty Shearwaters ... Sabine?s Gulls ... Brown Pelicans ... Cormorants ... Phalaropes Pinnipeds: ... Many Sea Lions (on the last buoy out of the harbor and scattered across the trip) ? 1 Stellers Sea Lion (on the last buoy out of the harbor) Shots of the day: ? 2 nice Blue Whale tail flukes and pectoral fin wave on a side roll and lunge) The trip started off very usual, we giving our presentation, Captain Anthony giving his safety talk, and a stop at the outer buoy to view the sea Lions. Fair warning was given for a good bumpy ride later to the 20 folks on this intimate run. Heavy overcast to fog on the water as we headed toward the SCI/SRI gap. Four to five Commons came by, then a much larger pod of 800 with many babies were in this group, more so that usual, to the great delight of the folks. We hung with them for a good bit, enjoying the show. Going further we came on a much larger group of commons (the 1000) and idled down to take them in. Again Many many babies were all over the place. This time we had some of the Commons jumping as well as their usual boat chasing antics. The folks were, again, very pleased to say the least. Soon we came on our first (and only) Humpback of the day, a juvenile quite likely feeding, as its down time was longer that usual. Nice fluke shots were offered as well as rather close in blows. While there, and as the fog lifted a bit, we could see the Condor well off in the distant horizon. Talking with Condor's Captan Mat, it had two Humpbacks there. So we thought about moving toward them, when we had word from IPCO's Island Adventure, taking folks to Santa Cruz, they had two Blues at the east end of Santa Cruz. This being a Blue Whale Watch, a nice turn to port and we were off east to hook up with the Island Adventure, and the Blues. Of course, by our arrival, they had gone. Further word from a commercial fishing boat and a dive boat at Anacapa, they had sited two Blues very near AI. Moving further east we headed to AI close in, with nice views of the north the side of West and Middle Islets of AI as well of East AI. Nearing Landing Cove and the two boats calling in the sitings, again no Blues were to be found. A nice quick look at AI Arch rock and the huge crashing waves filling the arch completely and more, we did a U turn out further into the Channel to do a second sweep of the area for these elusive cetacea. Mind you, dispute the beautiful crashing waves, due to the large southern swell up from New Zealand and parts south, the seas were very calm to glassy, ? so far. We then swept AI going west and now would go for the gap of AI/SCI. Nothing yet, with one humpback and some commons on the books, and the day looking a bit grim now, we headed on out south of AI toward the sea mount area. Nothing!! On we went, well into the out back some 10 miles. ... then a blow!! A bit breezy, not sure, but we thought it to be a Blue. Onward and on approach, sure enough, a Blue and then another. A nice pair of Blues, ? Captain, "Eagle Eye," Anthony had done it again. These two were feeding and yet moving along a bit, with good down times, and after telling the folks the flukes were not probable with the Blues, of course, they gave us a couple of very nice flukes. Then there were more blows back toward AI, Blues again, feeding again. One, then a short bit later one more, then two more moving very fast and feeding at the same time, while heading back toward the Channel. This is were you get a great view of these sleek animals and how easily they glide through the water, as if in a slip stream. A fast moving two car train of Blues forward lunge feeding all along the while booking it toward the Channel. Soon they slowed, just a bit, to roll on their sides with their seemingly small pectoral fin high in the air, white underbelly showing and half fluke, Orca slicing the sea not far behind, yet still moving at a great speed. An amazing show of their horizontal lung feeding skills, and pushing that great sleek mass through the water as if it were nothing but air. By now it is hard on 16 bells (4 PM) and we are well into the out back of the Channel, time to head home with a great treasure of great looks at the great Whales of the planet doing their thing in their own habitat, the great oceans of our precious Earth. Funny enough, all day, even in the far out back, the seas were flat with only a slight showing of a swell as we crossed the Channel, but you had to look for it. Yes, it WAS another fine day on the Channel and beyond. Folks on board were from Idaho, Utah, Fresno, LA, Santa Barbara, and one from as far away as, Ventura. Thanks to Captain Anthony, Crew of Zac and Daniel of IPCO, and the ever intrepid Debbie Shelley, my Naturalist Corp side kick, who kept the log tight, we all endured another hard day at sea. Gentle winds, mellow seas, and keep some fresh salt air near you, always. Ken Tatro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Two kayakers (campers)set off in the afternoon with building winds and a fairly large south swell even though they had received a thorough briefing in their orientation and again later about the dangers and risks involved. They did not return by the end of the day and our CINC volunteer, Carolyn Greene appropriately initiated another coordinated response between herself, protection division rangers, Sequoia dispatch and the U.S. Coast Guard. Fortunately the kayakers were able to make it back to the landing on their own after dark, and just before the CG helicopter was to launch from LAX. The kayakers got into a situation that was more difficult than they anticipated. It ended with them safely back ashore, but the ending could easily have been much worse. Carolyn's actions were appropriate. She was aware of the situation, concerned as the afternoon wore on and notified others up the chain of command of the situation. She remained active on scene searching for the kayakers and relaying information until the situation was resolved. This once again highlights the need for good orientations, knowledge of emergency procedures and radio use, as Carolyn demonstrated last night. Thank you to Carolyn for her good work here. Dave David Begun Channel Islands National Park david_begun at nps.gov 805-658-5731 From laura_email2000 at yahoo.com Mon Sep 5 10:54:49 2011 From: laura_email2000 at yahoo.com (Laura Shelton) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Sunday, Sept 4 Condor Message-ID: <1315245289.82359.YahooMailNeo@web160119.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Happy Labor Day Weekend! Sightings: 200 Common Dolphins (Nursery Pod!! about 50% mothers/calves)--Everyone LOVED this and some guests said that just seeing this made the trip worth it!! ---Check out Bob Perry's pictures---I would guess he got some good ones!! 2 Offshore Bottlenose (Very brief--few saw them) 1000 Common Dolphins Crew: Captain Dave, Dennis and Matt: ? Capt Dave did an excellent job planning a route to avoid the rough seas and which seemed like our best chance to see marine mammals based upon recent sightings. ?We came back through the gap between Anacapa and Santa Cruz and arrived back safely with minimal sick passengers and a very enthusiastic and fun large group of Labor Day weekend visitors. It was windy and foggy part of the day but very nice during the middle of the trip. The rough patch was on the way home and Capt Dave pre-warned everyone and so despite a Northwest swell that rocked us we got back and people were happy!! Domestic and International visitors! ? 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On 9/4/11 12:40 PM, "David_Begun at nps.gov" wrote: > > Last night there was another kayak incident on Anacapa Island. > > Two kayakers (campers)set off in the afternoon with building winds and a > fairly large south swell even though they had received a thorough briefing > in their orientation and again later about the dangers and risks involved. > They did not return by the end of the day and our CINC volunteer, Carolyn > Greene appropriately initiated another coordinated response between > herself, protection division rangers, Sequoia dispatch and the U.S. Coast > Guard. > > Fortunately the kayakers were able to make it back to the landing on their > own after dark, and just before the CG helicopter was to launch from LAX. > The kayakers got into a situation that was more difficult than they > anticipated. It ended with them safely back ashore, but the ending could > easily have been much worse. Carolyn's actions were appropriate. She was > aware of the situation, concerned as the afternoon wore on and notified > others up the chain of command of the situation. She remained active on > scene searching for the kayakers and relaying information until the > situation was resolved. > > This once again highlights the need for good orientations, knowledge of > emergency procedures and radio use, as Carolyn demonstrated last night. > Thank you to Carolyn for her good work here. > > Dave > > David Begun > Channel Islands National Park > david_begun at nps.gov > 805-658-5731 > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps From eradding at sbcglobal.net Mon Sep 5 11:57:54 2011 From: eradding at sbcglobal.net (EUGENE RADDING) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Replacement on CX Fri., 9/16/11 Message-ID: <1315249074.57041.YahooMailRC@web180306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I can't believe that out of 140 some volunteers no one has taken my spot on the CX, Fri., 9/16/11. How about it? I previously canceled my spot on it last week and sent an email on the rainlist but no one seems to have taken it.? Confirm to me if you choose to take it. eradding at sbcglobal.net You?can have?a day in paradise! EUGENE RADDING -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thusone at aol.com Mon Sep 5 12:29:12 2011 From: thusone at aol.com (thusone at aol.com) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:29:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CINC] sept 8 CX now available Message-ID: <8CE3A193A04230E-1A74-7BCCF@webmail-m135.sysops.aol.com> I had to cancel my Sept 8 CX Thursday, so it is now available. Shirley Johnson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eradding at sbcglobal.net Mon Sep 5 19:55:08 2011 From: eradding at sbcglobal.net (EUGENE RADDING) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 19:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] CX 9/16/11 Message-ID: <1315277708.56716.YahooMailRC@web180314.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Debbie Shelley?took the trip. THANKS. EUGENE RADDING -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppetrich39 at me.com Mon Sep 5 20:43:51 2011 From: ppetrich39 at me.com (paul jr petrich) Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:43:51 -0700 Subject: [CINC] The Bad and the Good Message-ID: Hello and Happy ending to Labor Day, I was a TC work detail on SCI this weekend. I am certain either Catherine French or David will update us on the latest hiker mishap on the island, which I think ended better than expected, as he was found a day after going missing during a hike to Montanon Ridge. On the good news side, I heard over an LA radio station on the way home that Blue Whales were feeding the last couple days a mile or two off of Redondo Beach pier! Unheard of in the past 80 years! Krill is in abundance there right now! Paul From kat at recycledgoods.com Tue Sep 6 07:29:54 2011 From: kat at recycledgoods.com (Kathyrn Wasden) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 07:29:54 -0700 Subject: [CINC] VOTING END TODAY FOR GRANT CHANCE Message-ID: <003001cc6ca1$726b2260$57416720$@com> I was going through old emails and stumbled on this, the bottom link is an article on the top 60 parks in 60 days (yes, CINP is way up on top)..from "mother nature network" That article led me to a "contest" where you vote on your favorite park, with the top three parks getting grants. It is my sincere hope that one day we get a grant so that those of us interested in wilderness first aid can have this class paid for via grant. Who knows, Rock the Vote (which ends today). Cheers, kat. http://livepositively.com/#/home http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/channel-island s-national-park-a-users-guide -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From whalephoto at earthlink.net Tue Sep 6 08:16:05 2011 From: whalephoto at earthlink.net (Bernardo Alps) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 08:16:05 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Subject: [CINC] The Bad and the Good Message-ID: <29801643.1315322166187.JavaMail.root@mswamui-cedar.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Hi all. The blues are just outside Redondo Beach again. Here is a link to video that ACS7 aired yesterday, http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=8342612&syndicate=syndicate§ion; CBS2 was going to have it on their morning news but it has not made the website yet, http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/09/05/blue-whales-spotted-in-santa-monica-bay/. We are all familiar with scads of blue whales surface lunge feeding, but what is amazing about this is that you can actually see the spouts when you are standing outside the ticket booth for the Voyager on the Redondo Beach Pier. And the whales are mobbed by kayakers, paddleboarders and all kinds of small craft. Last year the Voyager saw a jetskier jump off the back of a blue whale on purpose. Unheard of is not quite true, a few dozen blues fed on dense krill throughout the month of September last year. Take care, Bernardo -----Original Message----- >From: paul jr petrich >Sent: Sep 5, 2011 8:43 PM >To: channel_islands_ naturalist_corps >Subject: [CINC] The Bad and the Good > >Hello and Happy ending to Labor Day, > I was a TC work detail on SCI this weekend. I am certain either Catherine French or David will update us on the latest hiker mishap on the island, which I think ended better than expected, as he was found a day after going missing during a hike to Montanon Ridge. > On the good news side, I heard over an LA radio station on the way home that Blue Whales were feeding the last couple days a mile or two off of Redondo Beach pier! Unheard of in the past 80 years! Krill is in abundance there right now! Paul >_______________________________________________ >Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list >Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org >http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps From cfrench1366 at aol.com Tue Sep 6 11:02:58 2011 From: cfrench1366 at aol.com (Catherine French) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:02:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CINC] The Bad and the Good mostly good In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CE3AD6580326FD-6D8-5CA00@webmail-m038.sysops.aol.com> Here is my report to fill out a bit on Paul's comments about the four-day weekend at Scorpion Ranch. Also, I think Paul meant he was working at the TNC or The Nature Conservancy part of the island for the newbies in the group. Paul has been helping out at the old ranch in the central valley of Santa Cruz for many years and has lots of great stories to share about his experiences even before the east end became part of the CINP. Paul and I spent a week on the island in the central valley and on many ridge tops looking for a fox-hungry golden eagle! I was the overnight volunteer to support the ranger activities and provide interpretation - formal on hikes and informal around the island at Scorpion for the 4 days. This includes checkiing on the visitor center, helping with the coordination of loading and unloading passengers and gear from boats, assisting the rangers with a variety of duties with which they may need help. Friday was pretty casual with just two arrivals and two pick ups and not too many people. We all thought, though wrongly, it might be a mellow weekend. Not. On Saturday, we had 4 boat arrivals with both day and camper visitors as well as picking up folks four times as well. Marty Flam was there to help, thanks Marty. Rangers Tim and Merrill were busy educating and then writing ticktes to visitors who insisted on feeding the foxes. It was a huge problem all weekend, and I had people from my orientations telling me about individuals doing this. So, please in your orientations, let it be known how it is really bad for the foxes who have just recovered from near extinction. I am sure David will be reminding everyone about this important message. Tim came to most orientations to reenforce the "no feeding the animals" rule. Saturday night we listened to Carolyn Greene's kayak ordeal and all I could think was, "it seemed like deja vu all over again." Same crazy mistake against all advice to the contrary. Thanks Carolyn for noticing they weren't back, no one else may have. Sunday, was busy with 100s of campers and day visitors. Thanks to Bart Francis for taking a huge group of hikers from the 9:00 boat, as I was already taking many others on a hike. As the final pick up was in progress at the pier for a 5:00 departure, we noticed a small cabin cruiser that had been anchored at Scorpion was drifting, obviously draggin anchor. I alerted ranger Tim and he and Merrill who had just returned from hiking over from Prisoners, to go out in the patrol boat to retrieve the wayward vessel. Mike Lipoma from maintenance took off in a vehicle to find the owners who had skiffed ashore hours before. The swell was mixed from west and south and the wind was blowing from 20 to 25 knots. They saved the boat, yeah, but as Merrill came back to the pier to pick up one of the boat owners, I mentioned that we had a missing person. He and Tim finished up and by the time the boat left at 5:15, 4 friends of the missing person had gone back to wait for him on the mainland as Tim and Merrill began the search with support from their supervisor Mike Morales who was technically off duty for the weekend at home. We all got our marching orders from Mike, and the search was I. I stayed at housing with phone and radios to monitor, etc. Two kayak guides Tony and Andy were part of the search team. The search was called off at dark. Next morning, the guys left early, I started putting up notices about the missing person, and later a photo and speaking to everyone I met about being on the look out. The first boat arrived and part of my orientation was to provide 125 visitors with a description and last known whereabouts of the hiker which was 2:00 p.m. on Montanon Ridge on Sunday. Two of his friends came back out to be on the island and help if possible. I monitored radio chatter, they set off on a short search area and I started loading 117 campers, 25 day visitors (thanks Paul for providing gear loading support on the boat) as Danny had arrived from NPS to help with the search. Anyway, after noon hit, Mike was hovering over the ridge with Vta. Co. Search and Rescue. By then Merrill had found the hiker, in good condition. He had been following the sound of his voice for about 2 hours at that point. He was in the bottom of a ravine, but no injuries "just thirsty" he said. Two and a half hours later, they were back at Scorpion Canyon. It took a long time for Merrill and the hiker to get out of the deep ravine off the ridge near Smugglers and get back to the road to a park vehicle. Merrill and Time worked very hard for two days to find this guy with Danny's help and Mike superbly managing the process. I was so relieved as the call came in from Merrill that the hiker was fine and it was code 4, that's ranger speak for all is fine. All's well that ends well. The hiker was so glad to see his friends and they him and so sorry he had decided to hike further. He said, "next time I'm going with the smart people (referring to his two friends) and heading down the hill with them when they say, "'this looks too strenuous'", I'll agree!" It's always a pleasure to be on the islands, no matter what happens. I feel extremely blessed to be part of such an amazing team of people who are working to educate the public, manage and restore the ecosystem and share our love of the park and the oceans with everyone we meet. Calm Seas, Catherine French Writer, mentor, naturalist 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. -----Original Message----- From: paul jr petrich To: channel_islands_ naturalist_corps Sent: Mon, Sep 5, 2011 8:51 pm Subject: [CINC] The Bad and the Good Hello and Happy ending to Labor Day, I was a TC work detail on SCI this weekend. I am certain either Catherine rench or David will update us on the latest hiker mishap on the island, which I hink ended better than expected, as he was found a day after going missing uring a hike to Montanon Ridge. On the good news side, I heard over an LA radio station on the way home that lue Whales were feeding the last couple days a mile or two off of Redondo Beach ier! Unheard of in the past 80 years! Krill is in abundance there right now! aul ______________________________________________ hannel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list hannel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org ttp://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From klez18 at sbcglobal.net Tue Sep 6 14:34:00 2011 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net (Marty Flam) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Painted Cave 2nd longest... Message-ID: <1315344840.19541.YahooMailNeo@web180112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Fact or fiction? ? "The world's second longest sea cave based on an actual survey is Painted Cave on California's Santa Cruz Island. It is 1227 feet long and large enough to take a ..." http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/seacaves/seacaves.html http://www.caverbob.com/seacave.html ? "Sea Lion Caves, a show cave operation in Florence, Oregon, rightfully claims it to be the "world's largest sea cave." In terms of length, this has been verified by a laser survey, which yielded a total distance of 1315 feet of traversible passage in the cave. Over half of this distance is in a tunnel not entered on the tours, but visible from the viewing platform. " -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From klez18 at sbcglobal.net Tue Sep 6 14:35:05 2011 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net (Marty Flam) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] VC Star on Joel... Message-ID: <1315344905.9782.YahooMailNeo@web180112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> An inspiration to?veterans, newbies and all those between... http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/jun/17/channel-islands-sanctuary-volunteer-named-of-the/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ktl at canyonvoices.com Tue Sep 6 15:37:00 2011 From: ktl at canyonvoices.com (Karen Telleen-Lawton) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:37:00 -0700 Subject: [CINC] VC Star on Joel... In-Reply-To: <1315344905.9782.YahooMailNeo@web180112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1315344905.9782.YahooMailNeo@web180112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <9A1AC644-FCEA-4DD8-8874-3F5EF7D20F3F@canyonvoices.com> Congrats Joel! Well deserved. We'll have to give you our kudos before the volunteer dinner (?) Karen On Sep 6, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Marty Flam wrote: > An inspiration to veterans, newbies and all those between... > > http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/jun/17/channel-islands-sanctuary-volunteer-named-of-the/ > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps Karen Telleen-Lawton www.CanyonVoices.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kat at recycledgoods.com Tue Sep 6 19:48:29 2011 From: kat at recycledgoods.com (Kathyrn Wasden) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:48:29 -0700 Subject: [CINC] shark fin soup on the road to Jerry Brown's desk Message-ID: <003f01cc6d08$a0336330$e09a2990$@com> This just in on Twitter. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/shark-fin-soup-one-step-closer -to-being-banned.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cal Bight waters from 1930 through 1950, then on Fish and Game research vessels in the 1950s through the 1970s, and never lived long enough to see a magnificent Blue in our channels. Sounds like they need an effective Naturalist Corps down there to educate more about this change toward the positive? Paul On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Bernardo Alps wrote: > Hi all. > > The blues are just outside Redondo Beach again. Here is a link to video that ACS7 aired yesterday, http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=8342612&syndicate=syndicate§ion; CBS2 was going to have it on their morning news but it has not made the website yet, http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/09/05/blue-whales-spotted-in-santa-monica-bay/. > > We are all familiar with scads of blue whales surface lunge feeding, but what is amazing about this is that you can actually see the spouts when you are standing outside the ticket booth for the Voyager on the Redondo Beach Pier. And the whales are mobbed by kayakers, paddleboarders and all kinds of small craft. Last year the Voyager saw a jetskier jump off the back of a blue whale on purpose. > > Unheard of is not quite true, a few dozen blues fed on dense krill throughout the month of September last year. > > Take care, > > Bernardo > > > -----Original Message----- >> From: paul jr petrich >> Sent: Sep 5, 2011 8:43 PM >> To: channel_islands_ naturalist_corps >> Subject: [CINC] The Bad and the Good >> >> Hello and Happy ending to Labor Day, >> I was a TC work detail on SCI this weekend. I am certain either Catherine French or David will update us on the latest hiker mishap on the island, which I think ended better than expected, as he was found a day after going missing during a hike to Montanon Ridge. >> On the good news side, I heard over an LA radio station on the way home that Blue Whales were feeding the last couple days a mile or two off of Redondo Beach pier! Unheard of in the past 80 years! Krill is in abundance there right now! Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list >> Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org >> http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps From klez18 at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 7 04:04:59 2011 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net (Marty Flam) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 04:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Painted Cave vs Riko Riko Volume (space & sound): quantity, quality, commentary. References: <1315344840.19541.YahooMailNeo@web180112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1315393499.18844.YahooMailNeo@web180106.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ...inside quiet,?then exit and a far-out shout-out?for our channel's captains, clearly the coolest commentators, both before and after niftily negotiating?those gutty insides of?our island's?cliffsides... ? http://laist.com/2009/10/22/inside_the_largest_sea_cave_in_the.php#photo-2 ? http://www.caverider.co.nz/rikoriko.htm ? http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.225912752800.135118.168263292800 ? ? ? ? ? ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Marty Flam To: CINC Rainlist Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 2:34 PM Subject: Painted Cave 2nd longest... Fact or fiction? ? "The world's second longest sea cave based on an actual survey is Painted Cave on California's Santa Cruz Island. It is 1227 feet long and large enough to take a ..." http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/seacaves/seacaves.html http://www.caverbob.com/seacave.html ? "Sea Lion Caves, a show cave operation in Florence, Oregon, rightfully claims it to be the "world's largest sea cave." In terms of length, this has been verified by a laser survey, which yielded a total distance of 1315 feet of traversible passage in the cave. Over half of this distance is in a tunnel not entered on the tours, but visible from the viewing platform. " -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From klez18 at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 7 06:46:25 2011 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net (Marty Flam) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 06:46:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Monk Seal work in Hawaii Message-ID: <1315403185.47054.YahooMailNeo@web180106.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> http://www.aol.com/2011/09/06/seals-emergency-room_n_950268.html?test=faces ? 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We currently have one CINC volunteer signed-up so far and we need one to two more volunteers to assist with staffing, set-up/ break-down. All of the materials will be staged at the National Park Visitor Center and set-up in the adjacent parking lot by the beach where other response equipment will be displayed. Please let me know you are available between 1:30 and 7:00 pm on Tuesday, September 13 (event may end earlier) to assist. Thank you! Shauna PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: National Preparedness Response Exercise Program (NPREP): Pre-Exercise Public Outreach Events *LOS ANGELES* --- The Coast Guard announces its National Preparedness Response Exercise Program (NPREP) pre-exercise Public Outreach events to be held Sept. 13, 2011 in Ventura, Calif., free of charge. Government and Industry experts will be facilitating seminars on three topics of interest: Deepwater Horizon Response, Oiled Wildlife Care Network, and Sensitive Sites Strategy, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Static displays such as communications trailers, a HASS-like boat, Patch technology for vessels, off-shore deployment of a Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System (VOSS) from Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb, and others, will be available for viewing from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. The seminars and displays will be held at Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center located at Channel Islands National Park, 1901 Spinnaker Dr, Ventura, Calif. Displays will be at the Harbor Cove parking lot across the street from the Visitor Center, and the seminars will be held in the auditorium. The actual NPREP exercise will take place on Sept. 14 and 15 at an undisclosed location in the vicinity of Ventura County. For additional information on the public outreach events, contact Lt. Jennifer Osburn at (310) 521-3847. Agencies/Organizations Participating include U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEMRE), Regulation and Enforcement), Patriot Environmental Services, Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN), Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR), AeroVironment Inc., Clean Seas, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC), Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary (CINMS), Channel Watch Marine, National Parks Service (NPS), County of Ventura Office of Emergency Services, County of Santa Barbara Office of Emergency Services, NRC Environmental Services, O'Brien's Response Management Inc., Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) and more. September is National Preparedness Month, and the NPREP is part of the committed effort to strengthen the Nations' response capabilities. The national preparedness architecture encompasses the full spectrum of prevention, protection, response, and recovery efforts to prepare the United States for all hazards. As of 2009, the Citizen Corps National Survey revealed that only 57% of Americans surveyed report having supplies set aside in their homes just for disasters, and only 44% have a household emergency plan. National Preparedness Month serves to encourage individuals across the nation to take important preparedness steps including: getting an emergency supply kit, making a family emergency plan, being informed about the different emergencies that may affect them, as well as taking the necessary steps to get trained and become engaged in community preparedness and response efforts. How quickly a company or organization is able to get back to business after an earthquake, a tornado, a fire, a flood, or a terrorist attack often depends on emergency planning and preparation done before the disaster strikes. The Ready Campaign highlights three steps to Business Disaster Preparedness: 1) Plan to Stay in Business; 2) Talk to Your People; and 3) Protect Your Investment. These steps underscore how important it is for businesses to document their property/equipment, back up business-critical information, and put a response team in place. -- Shauna Bingham Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary 3600 S. Harbor Blvd. #2-202 Oxnard, CA 93035 Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (805) 382-6149 ext. 102 Fax (805) 382-9791 http://channelislands.noaa.gov ??`?.??..><((((?>???`?.??..><((((?>???`?.??..><((((?>???`?.??.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Capt.Anthony ________________________________ From: judy w To: whale listserve Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:10 PM Subject: [CINC] FW: Dr. Love on NPR Dr. Milton Love has a new book out, http://www.kclu.org/2011/08/24/ucsb-marine-biologist-turns-his-love-of-fish-into-coffee-table-book/ ? Also a story on white sea bass population restoration efforts on the SB coast http://www.kclu.org/2011/07/28/white-sea-bass-population-growing-off-ventura-santa-barbara-counties-thanks-to-volunteer-efforts/ ? ?? and Whale strikes http://www.kclu.org/2011/07/19/aerial-survey-of-santa-barbara-channel-underway-as-researchers-investigate-whale-strikes-by-cargo-ships/ ? ? _______________________________________________ Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please see his response below. Calm Seas, Catherine French Writer, mentor, naturalist 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. -----Original Message----- From: Trujillo, Alan To: Catherine French Sent: Thu, Sep 8, 2011 8:59 am Subject: RE: [CINC] Painted Cave 2nd longest... Hi Catherine: bout the cave question, see this Wikipedia site: ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cave he site mentions how sea caves are formed and it appears accurate. The site lso mentions some particulars about Painted Cave. It also has a link to Caver ob's list of longest caves of the world, where Painted Cave is ranked #2. I hink the list is reliable; laser measurements are highly accurate! Cheers, _____________________________________ l Trujillo istinguished Teaching Professor epartment of Earth, Space, & Aviation Sciences alomar College 140 W. Mission Rd. an Marcos, CA. 92069 USA hone (760) 744-1150 ext. 2734 ebsite: http://daphne.palomar.edu/atrujillo lass Blackboard site: http://www.palomar.edu/blackboard/ _______________________________________ rom: Catherine French [cfrench1366 at aol.com] ent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 3:23 PM o: Trujillo, Alan ubject: Fwd: [CINC] Painted Cave 2nd longest... Hi Al -- Hope all is well with your family. Lee said he spent time with you and our son on the latest SE Alaska adventure and was quite impressed with him. I ot to see him on the DVD and was amazed how much he has grown in the past year, ikes! When you have a moment would you check out this site and let me know if the way his man describes how caves are formed is accurate and if you know about the easuring of the caves he mentioned? I have been trying to get some kind of efinitive answer out Painted Cave, we always say it is one of the largest sea aves in the world. This site says it is the second largest. Also, I have trouble trying to explain to visitors to the islands how there so uch water available since we don't have winter snow, or extremely high ountains with lots of annual rain to feed the ground water and wells. I thought aybe you could give a lay person's answer that might suffice. Thanks so much! Calm Seas, Catherine French riter, mentor, naturalist 05.570.0432 o own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. ----Original Message----- rom: Marty Flam o: CINC Rainlist ent: Tue, Sep 6, 2011 2:42 pm ubject: [CINC] Painted Cave 2nd longest... Fact or fiction? "The world's second longest sea cave based on an actual survey is Painted Cave n California's Santa Cruz Island. It is 1227 feet long and large enough to take ..." ttp://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/seacaves/seacaves.html ttp://www.caverbob.com/seacave.html "Sea Lion Caves, a show cave operation in Florence, Oregon, rightfully claims it o be the "world's largest sea cave." In terms of length, this has been verified y a laser survey, which yielded a total distance of 1315 feet of traversible assage in the cave. Over half of this distance is in a tunnel not entered on he tours, but visible from the viewing platform. " ______________________________________________ hannel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list hannel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org ttp://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sent from i love my iPad From whalephoto at earthlink.net Sat Sep 10 04:17:52 2011 From: whalephoto at earthlink.net (Bernardo Alps) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:17:52 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Subject: [CINC] September 17 Message-ID: <10813051.1315653473331.JavaMail.root@elwamui-rubis.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Hi all. On Tuesday, a birding trip aboard the Searcher out of San Diego fond a White-chinned Petrel in the mouth of the Santa Barbara Channel. White-chinned Petrels breed mainly on subantarctic islands and this is only the fourth time one has been seen off North America; it is a mega rarity. Here is some video of the bird http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDathWSjSxo. On Saturday, September 17, the Condor Express will visit the same waters where the bird was seen. Of course, there are no guarantees, but you never know what you will find when you go out. More importantly, this trip has been especially designed as a training trip for CINC naturalists. Many of you have expressed interest in learning more about sea birds and Captain Mat has organized this trip with you in mind. There will be many excellent leaders on board, including Todd McGrath who found the White-chinned Petrel and Dave Pereksta, who will give blow-by-blow tutorials on how to identify the species we see in our area, even the more common ones. And you have the chance to get plenty of personal attention, there will be leaders walking around to answer questions throughout the trip. Since we are likely to make it outside the channel, there is also an excellent chance that we will see both long-beaked and short-beaked common dolphins on the trip and we will be able to examine ID points for the two species. I am Mr. Beach Cleanup and I am bummed that the trip falls on Coastal Cleanup Day but we have to show appreciation to Captain Mat and the Condor Express for organizing this trip for us and pricing it well below their normal rate. If you have not already done so, please call SEA Landing, 888-77WHALE, and sign up for what promises to be a great adventure. See you on the 17th. Take care, Bernardo From ppetrich39 at me.com Sat Sep 10 08:03:52 2011 From: ppetrich39 at me.com (paul jr petrich) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:03:52 -0700 Subject: [CINC] September 17 In-Reply-To: <10813051.1315653473331.JavaMail.root@elwamui-rubis.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <10813051.1315653473331.JavaMail.root@elwamui-rubis.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: Bernardo, I am with you. I, too, volunteered for Beach Cleanup Day. Sometimes our separate passions in regard to the environment seem to be read as if they were in competing books for sale, instead of chapters in the same book! Paul On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Bernardo Alps wrote: > Hi all. > > On Tuesday, a birding trip aboard the Searcher out of San Diego fond a White-chinned Petrel in the mouth of the Santa Barbara Channel. White-chinned Petrels breed mainly on subantarctic islands and this is only the fourth time one has been seen off North America; it is a mega rarity. Here is some video of the bird http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDathWSjSxo. > > On Saturday, September 17, the Condor Express will visit the same waters where the bird was seen. Of course, there are no guarantees, but you never know what you will find when you go out. More importantly, this trip has been especially designed as a training trip for CINC naturalists. Many of you have expressed interest in learning more about sea birds and Captain Mat has organized this trip with you in mind. There will be many excellent leaders on board, including Todd McGrath who found the White-chinned Petrel and Dave Pereksta, who will give blow-by-blow tutorials on how to identify the species we see in our area, even the more common ones. And you have the chance to get plenty of personal attention, there will be leaders walking around to answer questions throughout the trip. Since we are likely to make it outside the channel, there is also an excellent chance that we will see both long-beaked and short-beaked common dolphins on the trip and we will be able to examine ID > points for the two species. > > I am Mr. Beach Cleanup and I am bummed that the trip falls on Coastal Cleanup Day but we have to show appreciation to Captain Mat and the Condor Express for organizing this trip for us and pricing it well below their normal rate. If you have not already done so, please call SEA Landing, 888-77WHALE, and sign up for what promises to be a great adventure. See you on the 17th. > > Take care, > > Bernardo > > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps From carol.celic at gmail.com Sat Sep 10 17:07:03 2011 From: carol.celic at gmail.com (Carol Celic) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:07:03 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor Express 9.11 naturalist spot available Message-ID: Greetings, The second naturalist spot aboard the Condor Express for tomorrow's trip is now open. ~ Carol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yce-mya at pacbell.net Sun Sep 11 08:29:00 2011 From: yce-mya at pacbell.net (Marta Alvarez) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] September 17 CX Bird Trip & Beach Clean-Up conflict Message-ID: <1315754940.78054.YahooMailClassic@web81406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Like Bernardo & Paul, I am also a Beach Clean-Up Captain & would love to have been able to go on this trip. Hopefully there will be another one like it in the future. Marta Y. Alvarez ? ? Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:17:52 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Bernardo Alps Subject: [CINC] September 17 To: CINC Message-ID: ??? <10813051.1315653473331.JavaMail.root at elwamui-rubis.atl.sa.earthlink.net> ??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi all. On Tuesday, a birding trip aboard the Searcher out of San Diego fond a White-chinned Petrel in the mouth of the Santa Barbara Channel. White-chinned Petrels breed mainly on subantarctic islands and this is only the fourth time one has been seen off North America; it is a mega rarity. Here is some video of the bird http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDathWSjSxo. On Saturday, September 17, the Condor Express will visit the same waters where the bird was seen. Of course, there are no guarantees, but you never know what you will find when you go out. More importantly, this trip has been especially designed as a training trip for CINC naturalists. Many of you have expressed interest in learning more about sea birds and Captain Mat has organized this trip with you in mind. There will be many excellent leaders on board, including Todd McGrath who found the White-chinned Petrel and Dave Pereksta, who will give blow-by-blow tutorials on how to identify the species we see in our area, even the more common ones. And you have the chance to get plenty of personal attention, there will be leaders walking around to answer questions throughout the trip. Since we are likely to make it outside the channel, there is also an excellent chance that we will see both long-beaked and short-beaked common dolphins on the trip and we will be able to examine ID ? points for the two species. I am Mr. Beach Cleanup and I am bummed that the trip falls on Coastal Cleanup Day but we have to show appreciation to Captain Mat and the Condor Express for organizing this trip for us and pricing it well below their normal rate. If you have not already done so, please call SEA Landing, 888-77WHALE, and sign up for what promises to be a great adventure. See you on the 17th. Take care, Bernardo ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:03:52 -0700 From: paul jr petrich Subject: Re: [CINC] September 17 To: Bernardo Alps Cc: CINC Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Bernardo, I am with you. I, too, volunteered for Beach Cleanup Day. Sometimes our separate passions in regard to the environment seem to be read as if they were in competing books for sale, instead of chapters in the same book!? Paul On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:17 AM, Bernardo Alps wrote: > Hi all. > > On Tuesday, a birding trip aboard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From camccleskey at yahoo.com Sun Sep 11 12:40:58 2011 From: camccleskey at yahoo.com (Carolyn McCleskey) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Volunteer spot Message-ID: <1315770058.98185.YahooMailClassic@web160710.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Attention all volunteers !? 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URL: From klez18 at sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 14 05:15:57 2011 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net (Marty Flam) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:15:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Torrey Pines, Deer, Elk, Eagles, Species Management Message-ID: <1316002557.43034.YahooMailNeo@web180107.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> CINC friends, ? View from Santa Rosa Island... ? On Monday, thirty-two?engaging Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve docents, friends and family and I plumbed the depths of our collective?arboreal knowledge while?on loop hikes from North East Anchorage through our Torrey Pines forests on Santa Rosa Island. http://geodacenter.asu.edu/drupal_files/2010-04_0.pdf ? Atop the grove we noticed a few recently broken branches,?conjuring images of a?big browser?in a?big hurry recently visiting.? Visitors were?most impressed by the?abundance of our seedlings, saplings and juveniles, absent in their grove, guessing perhaps their ground squirrels,?[gophers], ?bark beetle, and/or drought, were culprits. None of that is present on SRI?to my knowledge.? http://www.torreypine.org/animals/mammals.html ? Afternoon hikers and I saw?an adult?pair of tagged bald eagles?(tag #s unk) soaring?from Black Rock up over our TP groves? and?a tagged juvenille (tag # unk) about 20 minutes later.? (Photos n/a.) ? Plans to save species?also continue afar, e.g. see Cost benefit analysis of conservation efforts to preserve an endangered species,? http://www.springerlink.com/content/yq7714kuwln3j414/ "Experts Meet to Save Israel's Eagles; Special workshop next week to discuss ways of saving Israeli eagle from extinction. By Gil Ronen; First Published: 9/12/2011: Fifteen experts from all over the world?... meet?... counterparts in Israel ... saving Israel's eagles. ... members of nature preservation groups, academicians and decision makers,... preventing the great bird's extinction.??... initiative of Porsim Kanaf ("Spreading Wings"), ... jointly operated by the Nature and Parks Authority, the Israeli Society for Preservation of Nature (ISPN) and the Electric Company. Experts ... from Spain, France, Kenya, South Africa, Greece, Switzerland, Bulgaria and the United States. Dan Alon, manager of the ISPN's bird watching center, said that "despite...resources invested ... witnessing?...serious decline in the situation of eagles in Israel. We hope that the experts' summit will help us think of creative, out-of-the-box solutions for saving our eagles." http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147800 ? Marty -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From cfrench1366 at aol.com Wed Sep 14 08:41:00 2011 From: cfrench1366 at aol.com (Catherine French) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:41:00 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor Express Sept 13th In-Reply-To: <000c01cc72ec$5be870f0$6701a8c0@D999Z091> References: <000c01cc72ec$5be870f0$6701a8c0@D999Z091> Message-ID: Should have reported earlier, that on the way back from a day trip to San Miguel on Saturday, Sept. 10, we encountered two adult blue whales near the shipping lanes offshore of Santa Cruz. They fluked a couple of times to please the crowd of about 70 before Capt. Lee took us into Painted Cave. On the trip out and back we encountered small groups of Rissos and a mega pod of common dolphins. The group was made of about 35 day hikers and Cabrillo Landing reenactors from the Cabrillo Aquarium and Museum. This marked the final trip for the group after nearly forty years. With John Olquin no longer with us, the group will do the annual ceremony at Cabrillo Beach. Calm seas, Catherine French Writer, naturalist, mentor 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. Sent from i love my iPad On Sep 14, 2011, at 7:41 AM, "Don Shubert" wrote: > Sandra Squires and myself were out on the Condor Express yesterday with 35 passengers, mostly from Europe: England, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, et al. > > The channel was like glass and we went into and out of the fog all day. > > We came across four groups of commons and went to the Cave, we had just about given up hope of spotting any whales and we were on the way back to port when we came upon > two adult humpbacks who were working their way west very rapidly but still managed to give the passengers some great views. Needless to say, everyone on board was excited and pleased with the great trip. > > Thanks to Capt Matt, DJ and Brooke > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kat at recycledgoods.com Wed Sep 14 13:26:20 2011 From: kat at recycledgoods.com (Kathyrn Wasden) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:26:20 -0700 Subject: [CINC] blue whale vocalization on news tonight? Message-ID: <006501cc731c$90a6a2a0$b1f3e7e0$@com> I know that we are all a bit frustrated by the lack of Blues, so here is a chance possibly to get a "fix" of a rare vocalization of a blue in San Pedro waters (sigh) which might be on the news tonight (per end of article linked below). http://www.petethomasoutdoors.com/2011/09/tv-news-crew-treated-to-extremely- rare-blue-whale-serenade.html this was posted by bernardo alps on twitter.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(Sept. 14, 2011) Burrunan Dolphin Tursiops australis sp. nov., ? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024047 ? ...the macro-morphological, colouration and cranial characters of these animals, assess the available and new genetic data, and conclude that multiple lines of evidence clearly indicate a new species of dolphin. ? ...detailed DNA studies and analysis of skulls in museums showed ...a new species ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14921665 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Very nice site and great info. http://www.whaleresearch.com/orca_ID.html Calm Seas, Catherine French Writer, mentor, naturalist 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. -----Original Message----- From: Marty Flam To: CINC Rainlist Sent: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 10:17 am Subject: [CINC] New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan Hi fellow CINC Cetacean Watchers, I've heard we have more than one bottle-nose population in our local bight, but classified as only one species. Same with Orcas. I often wonder if really true and if so, why or why not separated scientifically like this newbie, scientifically speaking. Marty (Sept. 14, 2011) Burrunan Dolphin Tursiops australis sp. nov., http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024047 ...the macro-morphological, colouration and cranial characters of these animals, assess the available and new genetic data, and conclude that multiple lines of evidence clearly indicate a new species of dolphin. ...detailed DNA studies and analysis of skulls in museums showed ...a new species http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14921665 _______________________________________________ hannel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list hannel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org ttp://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Staci On Sep 15, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Sally Eagle wrote: > I missed the Blue Whale talk at the Museum. There had to be many > "teachable tidbits" that we all could share with our captive > audiences. Could any of you share these with me? I understand that > the talk was not video'd...........true/false? > Thanks, > Sally > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From whalephoto at earthlink.net Thu Sep 15 11:44:34 2011 From: whalephoto at earthlink.net (Bernardo Alps) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:44:34 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Subject: [CINC] blue whale vocalization on news tonight? Message-ID: <19805608.1316112275189.JavaMail.root@elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From creativephoto2 at gmail.com Thu Sep 15 12:43:29 2011 From: creativephoto2 at gmail.com (Michele ) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:43:29 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Channel_islands_naturalist_corps Digest, Vol 43, Issue 11 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello :) Re: Info Request: I missed the August meeting too as I was up in Washington. I was told before hand that it was not going to be video taped. So if anyone has any info to share, I would like to receive it as well. (Just adding my two cents)... Re: Northern & Southern Resident Orcas Yes, Catherine that is a great website for the Southern Resident Orcas (approximately 86 Orcas, 3 pods) - basically the only one out there. Unfortunately, it does not include the Northern Resident Orcas as that research group primarily studies the Southern Residents. Yes, J-2 (Granny) is estimated to be 100 years old this year, and unfortunately, her son; Ruffles (J-1) passed away last November 2010 estimated to be in his late 50's, He was considered a legend, and was one of the most photographed Orcas. If anyone has seen the movie Free Willy, the group of Orcas in the wild before and after have members of the Southern Residents including J-1 (6-ft plus tall, wavy dorsal fin) and J-2. Northern Resident Orcas, which consist of about 220 whales (approx 34 matrilines) an updated ID catalog of them can be located here: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/343923.pdf. Orca lab (http://www.orcalab.org/index.htm) researches and monitors them. Transient Orcas of BC & Southern Alaska, their outdated ID catalog can be found here: http://www.orcanetwork.org/nathist/TCat2008lores.pdf. Marty... from what I understand, there are two Bottlenose species (Coastal and Off-shore) whom physical characteristics from observing and photographing them are definitely different. Not sure if that is what you were after - sorry if I misunderstood. Orcas off the California coastline are Transients (California clan); which are common to our waters. The Off-shore Orcas (rare) have been sighted a couple of times south over the past two to three years. Transients eat basically any mammal in the ocean and travel in small groups, including traveling alone to where Off-shore Orcas eat shark and fish and travel in much larger groups approx 60-70. Alisa Schulman-Janiger can shed more light on the Off-shore Orcas. There are two to three of our California Transient Orcas that have gone up to WA / BC to visit those Transients last year and again this year (just recently). For about 4-5 years, every winter (mostly January) Southern Resident Orcas L-pod made their way down to Monterey Bay. Skipped I believe about two years and made their way down earlier this year. Hope you don't mind me chiming in... Cheers! Michele Wassell ------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. Condor Cancelled Tomorrow, 16 September (Valerie Olson) 2. New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan (Marty Flam) 3. Re: New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan (Catherine French) 4. info request (Sally Eagle) 5. Re: info request (Staci Kaye-Carr) 6. Re: blue whale vocalization on news tonight? (Bernardo Alps) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:08:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Marty Flam Subject: [CINC] New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan To: CINC Rainlist Message-ID: <1316106500.89989.YahooMailNeo at web180112.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi fellow CINC Cetacean Watchers, ? I've heard we have?more than one?bottle-nose population in our local bight, but classified as only one species.? Same with Orcas. I often wonder if really true and if so, why or why not separated scientifically like this newbie, scientifically speaking.? ? Marty ? (Sept. 14, 2011) Burrunan Dolphin Tursiops australis sp. nov., ? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024047 ? ...the macro-morphological, colouration and cranial characters of these animals, assess the available and new genetic data, and conclude that multiple lines of evidence clearly indicate a new species of dolphin. ? ...detailed DNA studies and analysis of skulls in museums showed ...a new species ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14921665 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:31:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Catherine French Subject: Re: [CINC] New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan To: klez18 at sbcglobal.net, channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Message-ID: <8CE41E46B601BEC-16F8-58A8 at webmail-m005.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This is a great website, mostly about resident Orca, but has amazing photos and IDs of the northern and souther populations in the Pacifid Northwest. Also, tells age, with one still living female that is 100 years old. You can also by the guide to ID the pods. Very nice site and great info. http://www.whaleresearch.com/orca_ID.html Calm Seas, Catherine French Writer, mentor, naturalist 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:48:46 -0700 From: "Sally Eagle" Subject: [CINC] info request To: "CINC" Message-ID: <541486EE47154F28A3CE8E227BA8CD5D at SallyPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I missed the Blue Whale talk at the Museum. There had to be many "teachable tidbits" that we all could share with our captive audiences. Could any of you share these with me? I understand that the talk was not video'd...........true/false? Thanks, Sally From vfolson at cox.net Thu Sep 15 13:02:25 2011 From: vfolson at cox.net (Valerie Olson) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:02:25 -0700 Subject: [CINC] info request In-Reply-To: <541486EE47154F28A3CE8E227BA8CD5D@SallyPC> References: <541486EE47154F28A3CE8E227BA8CD5D@SallyPC> Message-ID: <70210834-357C-491A-A30C-8826780CE23C@cox.net> Hi all, I took some notes for the first hour or so. The information after that was very, very detailed and I had a hard time keeping up with Paul. However, I rewrote my notes and have attached them ... in the event they might help. Valerie Olson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Blue Skeleton Talk.doc Type: application/octet-stream Size: 27136 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- On Sep 15, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Sally Eagle wrote: > I missed the Blue Whale talk at the Museum. There had to be many > "teachable tidbits" that we all could share with our captive > audiences. Could any of you share these with me? I understand that > the talk was not video'd...........true/false? > Thanks, > Sally > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps From larry.driscoll at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 15 16:59:53 2011 From: larry.driscoll at sbcglobal.net (Larry Driscoll) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] CINC 9-15 Trip on the Condor Message-ID: <1316131193.39885.YahooMailRC@web83604.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Small load of people today -?about 26.? Brian Resnick was the other naturalist aboard. We saw one humpback which was traveling and feeding.? We picked him up off Santa Rosa and followed him to the channel between SR and SC.? When we were?almost back to the harbor we?saw approx. 75?common dolphins going after a bait ball of anchovies.? Passengers really liked this since the sun came out, the water was clear and one could look right down into the water to see the dolphins around the bait fish. best regards to all ?Larry Driscoll larry.driscoll at sbcglobal.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From whalephoto at earthlink.net Thu Sep 15 19:32:09 2011 From: whalephoto at earthlink.net (Bernardo Alps) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:32:09 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Subject: [CINC] Was Flex Just a Fluke? Message-ID: <22548334.1316140329981.JavaMail.root@elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Hi All. We already know that there are multiple gray whale matches from both sides of the North Pacific. Dr. Bruce Mate of the OSU Marine Mammal Institute and a team of researchers from the US and Russia are tagging western Pacific gray whales off Sakhalin Island to find out how many follow the path taken by Flex last season and migrate over to the eastern Pacific. This is tremendously exciting research. http://blog.oregonlive.com/higher-education/2011/09/flex_leads_researchers_to_succ.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/09/14/national/a145047D48.DTL#ixzz1Y27f8Fnc http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/Sakhalin2011 Take care, Bernardo From whalephoto at earthlink.net Thu Sep 15 23:41:50 2011 From: whalephoto at earthlink.net (Bernardo Alps) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:41:50 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Subject: [CINC] New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan Message-ID: <1516740.1316155310784.JavaMail.root@elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Hi Marty. The bottlenose dolphin is a cosmopolitan species that occurs in diverse habitats in tropical and temperate latitudes around the world. Scientists have long been aware of many different "populations" or morphological variants and they have been considered different species in the past, but all were consolidated into Tursiops truncatus until 1999 when the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, T. aduncus, became a separate species. T. aduncus has a fairly extensive range along the entire east coast of Africa and south coast of Asia up to Korea and the entire Indonesian archipelago and northern Australia; while T. australis has a fairly limited range in southern and south-eastern Australia. Locally, we have two forms of bottlenose dolphins, coastal and offshore, but they are officially still considered to both be T. truncatus. The California population of nearshore T. truncatus has been pretty well studied and is estimated at 350 to 450 individuals, while the offshore populations is estimated at 3,500 and probably many more. They are considered separate stocks by NMFS and managed as such. There are significant morphological and genetic differences between the two ecotypes, showing that they diverged quite a while ago. There is an interesting paper by Perrin et al., the abstract can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00442.x/abstract, if anyone is interested, email me and I can send you a PDF of the entire paper. Basically, splitting a species is not easy and so far no one has decided to tackle this one. Researchers are aware of the differences and do for the most part keep careful track of which ecotype they are recording, but at this time both forms that we see here in the Southern California Bight are still considered the same species. I would like to thank Maddlena Bearzi of the Ocean Conservation Society and Dave Weller of NOAA for their incredibly fast and complete responses to my RFI on this matter that allowed me to put together this brief synopsis. Hope this helps. Take care, Bernardo -----Original Message----- From: Marty Flam Sent: Sep 15, 2011 10:08 AM To: CINC Rainlist Subject: [CINC] New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan Hi fellow CINC Cetacean Watchers, I've heard we have more than one bottle-nose population in our local bight, but classified as only one species. Same with Orcas. I often wonder if really true and if so, why or why not separated scientifically like this newbie, scientifically speaking. Marty (Sept. 14, 2011) Burrunan Dolphin Tursiops australis sp. nov., http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024047 ...the macro-morphological, colouration and cranial characters of these animals, assess the available and new genetic data, and conclude that multiple lines of evidence clearly indicate a new species of dolphin. ...detailed DNA studies and analysis of skulls in museums showed ...a new species http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14921665 From klez18 at sbcglobal.net Fri Sep 16 06:38:04 2011 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net (Marty Flam) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan In-Reply-To: <1516740.1316155310784.JavaMail.root@elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <1516740.1316155310784.JavaMail.root@elwamui-huard.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1316180284.62598.YahooMailNeo@web180115.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> CINC: ? Thank you to Bernardo Alps, CINC with help from Maddlena Bearzi of the Ocean Conservation Society; and Dave Weller of NOAA for their incredibly fast and complete responses to?RFI.? My new word for the day: "ecotypes." ? When our two "populations" or "separate stocks" or "morphological varients" with "significant morphological and genetic differences between the two ecotypes" are split, I propose they be named in honor of Bernardo and CINC. ? Marty ? PS No mention of size difference in Perrin et al. abstract.? Could you email me PDF?? Thanks Bernardo. Abstract? "Coastal and offshore bottlenose dolphins in California waters?... The coastal form differs from the offshore form mainly in features associated with feeding: larger and fewer teeth, more robust rostrum, larger mandibular condyle, and larger temporal fossa... ...features of the skull may reflect differences in diving behavior and sound production... ? From: Bernardo Alps To: CINC Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [CINC] New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan Hi Marty. The bottlenose dolphin is a cosmopolitan species that occurs in diverse habitats in tropical and temperate latitudes around the world. Scientists have long been aware of many different "populations" or morphological variants and they have been considered different species in the past, but all were consolidated into Tursiops truncatus until 1999 when the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, T. aduncus, became a separate species. T. aduncus has a fairly extensive range along the entire east coast of Africa and south coast of Asia up to Korea and the entire Indonesian archipelago and northern Australia; while T. australis has a fairly limited range in southern and south-eastern Australia. Locally, we have two forms of bottlenose dolphins, coastal and offshore, but they are officially still considered to both be T. truncatus. The California population of nearshore T. truncatus has been pretty well studied and is estimated at 350 to 450 individuals, while the offshore populations is estimated at 3,500 and probably many more. They are considered separate stocks by NMFS and managed as such. There are significant morphological and genetic differences between the two ecotypes, showing that they diverged quite a while ago. There is an interesting paper by Perrin et al., the abstract can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00442.x/abstract, if anyone is interested, email me and I can send you a PDF of the entire paper. Basically, splitting a species is not easy and so far no one has decided to tackle this one. Researchers are aware of the differences and do for the most part keep careful track of which ecotype they are recording, but at this time both forms that we see here in the Southern California Bight are still considered the same species. I would like to thank Maddlena Bearzi of the Ocean Conservation Society and Dave Weller of NOAA for their incredibly fast and complete responses to my RFI on this matter that allowed me to put together this brief synopsis. Hope this helps. Take care, Bernardo ? -----Original Message----- From: Marty Flam Sent: Sep 15, 2011 10:08 AM To: CINC Rainlist Subject: [CINC] New Tursiops Dolphin Species - Burrunan Hi fellow CINC Cetacean Watchers, I've heard we have more than one bottle-nose population in our local bight, but classified as only one species.? Same with Orcas. I often wonder if really true and if so, why or why not separated scientifically like this newbie, scientifically speaking.? Marty (Sept. 14, 2011) Burrunan Dolphin Tursiops australis sp. nov., http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024047 ...the macro-morphological, colouration and cranial characters of these animals, assess the available and new genetic data, and conclude that multiple lines of evidence clearly indicate a new species of dolphin. ...detailed DNA studies and analysis of skulls in museums showed ...a new species http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14921665 _______________________________________________ Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As we continued the trip we came across 2000 common dolphins performing great leaps and belly flops. It was a awesome show. Painted Cave as always made the passengers ooh and awe as usual. All aboard were happy with the trip. Thanks to the crew Captain Dave, Dennis, the world famous cook Brooke. Laura S. on PID and me Debbie S. _______________________________________________ Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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No whales spotted and we turn to the east and followed the coast of Santa Cruz to Painted Cave. Everyone on board said the trip was worth the trip as we entered Painted Cave. As we ventured east to Anacapa Captain Lee spotted a spout of a lone shy long winded humpback by Prisoners Cove. Everyone on board was pleased that a whale was spotted even though it's down time was 10 minutes +. Luckily it did give us 2 great flukes sightings. As we continued to the gap between Santa Cruz and Anacapa we spotted some off shore bottlenose dolphin that put on a great show of acrobatics for the boat some leaping at least 4 feet in the air and even one doing and 180 leap in the waves. All in all it was a great end to the season. Thanks to Captain Lee and Laurie for all the great interpretation of the islands Thank you Page for all the great food. 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Sent from i love my iPad On Sep 17, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Anthony Lombardi wrote: > Here is a link to a video shot on the Christopher of Orcas on Friday. > http://belmontshore.patch.com/articles/watch-killer-whales-stalk-clever-sea-lion#youtube_video-7798138 > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppetrich39 at me.com Sun Sep 18 08:37:00 2011 From: ppetrich39 at me.com (paul jr petrich) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:37:00 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Santa Clause Ln Beach Cleanup Message-ID: <09228FD0-7B4B-4B3A-9EC9-5D30F9D1AE50@me.com> Hello Beach and Ocean People, CINC troopers Marta Alvarez and Linda Taylor did a fantastic job in organizing 28 volunteers who picked up over an official 300 lbs of trash at Santa Clause Lane! Yours truly got a good workout gathering 153 lbs., which included 3 buried tires and 2 illegally dumped commercial buckets of plumbing drain sludge! But most disgusting of all trash collected, and the one seemingly on the increase at beautiful Santa Clause Lane, is dog waste WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC OR DISPOSABLE BAG! Twenty two this year that still remained intact. Why don't we hear, from responsible dog owners, a cry against this sanitation stupidity and/or arrogance? Responsible parents have for a long time shamed irresponsible parents who leave dirty disposable diapers on the beach ( two found in comparison). Shauna, I have a couple photos. How do I send them on the rainlist? Still a beach bum, Paul. P.S. Surfers as a group were once the most notorious for trashing the beaches they frequented. CONGRATS TO THEM FOR GROWING UP! Take a look sometime at Rincon's Surfer Point park just east of Bates Rd Ventura/SB County line. From whalephoto at earthlink.net Sun Sep 18 14:18:39 2011 From: whalephoto at earthlink.net (Bernardo Alps) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:18:39 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Subject: [CINC] CX Trip Report of 9-17 Message-ID: <19945705.1316380719856.JavaMail.root@mswamui-chipeau.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Hi all. There was a small craft advisory for the West Channel on Saturday, so we decided to head southeast towards SBI to refind a large flock of storm-petrels reported from an IPCO trip the day before. Seas were nice and flat and there was very little wind for most of the trip, it only got a little bumpy heading back through the channel. We didn?t find anything spectacular but we had a nice string of sightings to keep us entertained for the whole eight hours. Leaders Todd McGrath, Dave Compton, Adam Searcy and Wes Fritz gave a lot of detailed information and answered a lot of questions about the birds we saw. We caught a quick glimpse of a minke whale hear the string of oil rigs on our way out and had a couple of nice looks at what was likely the same animal on our way back. We found the first of many pods of Long-beaked Common Dolphins neaby. As we were about mid-channel in line with the west end of Anacapa, Captain Mat heard some chatter on the radio about possible Pilot Whales. Pilot Whales are extremely unlikely, but we did have orca on the brain after the sighting off Point Fermin the day before, http://sanpedronewspilot.com/profiles/blogs/orcas-in-pedro, so we decided to investigate further. Mat found out the sighting was near Prisoners, so we started heading that way. We soon found a very active pod of about 350 short-beaked common dolphins which gave us an opportunity to compare them to the Dc that we see way more often in the channel. While we were being entertained by the Dd, word came over the radio that the sighting was actually a humpback so we turned again and went through the Anacapa/Santa Cruz gap. Just on the other side of the islands we found a pod of about 16 Risso?s and another of about 25 offshore Bottlenose. A little further from Anacapa we found a couple hundred Long-beaked Commons spread out over a wide area and feeding at the surface. We had seen lots of Sooty Shearwaters and quite a few Pink-footed Shearwaters both in the channel and outside of the islands, but as got further away we saw almost only Ashy and Black Storm-petrels. And then we found a giant raft of some 2000 Black Storm-petrels sitting on the water together. This was what we had come looking for, but unfortunately there were no other species mixed in. On the way back to Anacapa we passed two more small pods of Gg, and likely the same Tt and Dc from before. We passed very close to the east end of the island where a lot of California sea lions were hauled out. On the way back across the channel there was another fund pod of Dc. And we saw a couple of fairly large Mola Mola. Western, California and Heermann?s Gulls were everywhere in good numbers. We only saw a couple of Elegant and a couple of Common Terns. There were some Pomarine Jaegers throughout the trip and a few Parasitic Jaegers. A single South Polar Skua was probably the most exciting bird of the trip. Not many alcids, just a couple of Cassin?s Auklets and some good looks at a Rhinoceros Auklet. Red-necked Phalaropes were encountered throughout the trip in small numbers, with highest concentrations on surface breaks south of the islands with a few Red Phalaropes mixed in. The two species of storm petrels are the ones we most commonly see in the channel and it was a great opportunity to study their identification. Ashy Storm Petrel is a local specialty; there are probably only 10,000 individuals and outside of the Channel Islands they nest only on the Coronados and the Farallons. For those of you who are bummed that missed this trip, the ?Condor Express? has another eight-hour birding trip planned in a couple of weeks, on Saturday, October 1. The exact itinerary will like only be decided on the morning of the trip, but it will be another opportunity to learn about the sea birds on our area. Take care, Bernardo From whalephoto at earthlink.net Sun Sep 18 16:42:38 2011 From: whalephoto at earthlink.net (Bernardo Alps) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:42:38 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Subject: [CINC] SOCAL-11 Message-ID: <13758690.1316389358920.JavaMail.root@mswamui-chipeau.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Hi all. As we boarded the Condor Express Saturday morning, we watched the Truth leave the dock with the team of scientists beginning Leg II of SOCAL-11. I got to say hi to John Calambokidis, Annie Douglas, Greg Shorr, Todd Pusser and Ari Friedlander, I am not sure who all was on board as they were busy preparing for departure. They had several rigid hull inflatables and a sound source, and will be in the bight until September 30. A whole bunch of information is on the project website at http://sea-inc.net/socal-brs/socal-11/. There are also links to the project blog and to last year's results. This is some very exciting science being done right in our own backyard and we have a chance to follow it quite closely. Take care, Bernardo From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Mon Sep 19 13:11:05 2011 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:11:05 -0700 Subject: [CINC] October OUTREACH Calendars Posted Message-ID: <9914309b3b2e4d96.4e773f69@noaa.gov> The CINC October 2011 Outreach calendars are posted on VolunteerSpot, please let me know if you have any questions and thank you for supporting this important facet of the CINC program! --Shauna From eradding at sbcglobal.net Mon Sep 19 17:26:59 2011 From: eradding at sbcglobal.net (EUGENE RADDING) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Sub needed CX Fri. 9/23/11 Message-ID: <1316478419.96030.YahooMailRC@web180306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I can't do?my assignment on the CX, Fri. 9/23/11 due to some conflicting committments. Tina Stephens Armbruster is assigned she will be pleased to have someone join her. I have removed my name from VolunteerSpot. Confirm to me if possible that you are taking this trip. EUGENE RADDING From michaelberg6 at gmail.com Mon Sep 19 19:49:10 2011 From: michaelberg6 at gmail.com (Michael Berg) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:49:10 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Fwd: Condor Express 9/19 WWTrip In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Berg Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:32 PM Subject: Condor Express 9/19 WWTrip To: sanctuary-naturalist-corps at rain.org No whale sightings but closeup views of common dolphins in three pods totaling 400.Several mother calf pairs and flirting males were spotted among the bow riding dolphins. Two mola molas were also spotted by Capt.Matt on the trip to Santa Cruz. Fog limited visibility to about 5 miles during most of the trip. Sea conditions were scale like ripples. On board were 30 passengers from Germany, England, Indonesia, and Arizona. They really enjoyed dolphin viewing, cruising close to Santa Cruz Island, and the closeup view of the Painted Cave entrance. Kudos to Capt. Matt and Dave for a great trip and commentary and to Matt for enjoyable food from the galley grill. Naturalists on board were veteran Debbie Shelly and newbie Michael Berg. Michael Berg michaelberg6 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nymeetsca at gmail.com Tue Sep 20 10:52:06 2011 From: nymeetsca at gmail.com (HAL ALTMAN) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:52:06 -0700 Subject: [CINC] PID SLOT AVAILABLE ON CX, SEPT. 29TH Message-ID: Hi Everyone, I've got a scheduling problem, so I need to give up my CX PID spot for Thursday, Sept. 29. HAL ALTMAN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From hilburndesigns at gmail.com Tue Sep 20 17:40:47 2011 From: hilburndesigns at gmail.com (Barbara Hilburn) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:40:47 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor Message-ID: Condor cancelled for Sept. 21, 2011 Barbara Hilburn From mr.zalophus at gmail.com Tue Sep 20 17:45:04 2011 From: mr.zalophus at gmail.com (Mr Zalophus) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:45:04 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Oct 1st Audubon Pelagic Birds - CX - 20% discount for CINC Message-ID: Colleagues, We apologize for having scheduled our special "naturalists pelagic bird trip" on the same day as the Beach Cleanup. So here is a special deal just for you to help polish our tarnished reputation: 20% off for CINC naturalists only. October 1st - Audubon & Condor Express Pelagic Bird Trip 8am - 3pm. This 8 hour trip departs from the Santa Barbara Harbor at 7:00 a.m. on the catamaran Condor Express. Birds to be expected: Northern Fulmar; Sooty, Pink-footed and Black-vented shearwaters; Black, Ashy, and Leach?s Storm-Petrels; cormorants (3): rocky shorebirds (up to 5); Red-necked and Red phalaropes; South Polar Skua; Pomarine, Parasitic and Long-tailed Jaegers; Sabine?s Gull: Royal, Common and Arctic terns. Uncommon species or rarities to be looked for: Buller?s Shearwater, Least Storm-Petrel; Red-billed Tropicbird ; Craveri?s Murrelet. Humpback and Blue Whales and Pacific White-sided Dolphins are likely this time of year. The 2009 trip produced the first Ventura County record of Blue-footed Booby. Also seen was a Brown Boobyand Minke Whale. 2009 Trip Report *RESERVATIONS: *Reservations are $125. Call Condor Cruises *(805) 882-0088* for reservations and trip status. *IMPORTANT DETAILS:* Click for important logistic informationabout the Condor Express, Santa Barbara landing, driving directions, maps, lodging, weather, refund and cancellation policies, on-board facilities, meals and snacks. *HOW TO PREPARE:* tips on how to prepare, what to wear, what to bring and when to arrive. *LEADERS:* Experienced SoCal pelagic bird spotters, guides and leaders will be on board to identify and point out marine mammals and seabirds. Best fishes and have a whale (er, I mean, Red-billed Tropicbird) of a day! Bob Perry Condor Express -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From withwind2 at gmail.com Sun Sep 18 09:43:17 2011 From: withwind2 at gmail.com (Larry Harris) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:43:17 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Santa Clause Ln Beach Cleanup In-Reply-To: <09228FD0-7B4B-4B3A-9EC9-5D30F9D1AE50@me.com> References: <09228FD0-7B4B-4B3A-9EC9-5D30F9D1AE50@me.com> Message-ID: I put some time in at Emma Wood Beach where Drew Pichard was doing a fine job as Captain. Didn't find any dog bags but I agree that Dog owners, as I am with a Aussie, should be more responsible! I carry extra bags with me and do not hesitate to hand them out to those who ignorant. Most of my collection was cigarette filters, plastic bags, and plastic debris at the high tide line of the river area. I don?t think I have been involved in any activity that invokes such a wide range of emotions; from mad as hell, to disgust, to gratitude, and in between. Mad as hell that so many people throw trash in locations where it eventually ends up in waterways and eventually on the beach, disgusted with them for doing so and not caring about the environment , and gratitude for those who do care enough to help clean it up like many did today. Thanks to all those who did today, but especially to those who make it a daily practice to care! Larry On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 8:37 AM, paul jr petrich wrote: > Hello Beach and Ocean People, > CINC troopers Marta Alvarez and Linda Taylor did a fantastic job in > organizing 28 volunteers who picked up over an official 300 lbs of trash at > Santa Clause Lane! Yours truly got a good workout gathering 153 lbs., which > included 3 buried tires and 2 illegally dumped commercial buckets of > plumbing drain sludge! > But most disgusting of all trash collected, and the one seemingly on the > increase at beautiful Santa Clause Lane, is dog waste WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC > OR DISPOSABLE BAG! Twenty two this year that still remained intact. Why > don't we hear, from responsible dog owners, a cry against this sanitation > stupidity and/or arrogance? Responsible parents have for a long time shamed > irresponsible parents who leave dirty disposable diapers on the beach ( two > found in comparison). Shauna, I have a couple photos. How do I send them on > the rainlist? Still a beach bum, Paul. P.S. Surfers as > a group were once the most notorious for trashing the beaches they > frequented. CONGRATS TO THEM FOR GROWING UP! Take a look sometime at > Rincon's Surfer Point park just east of Bates Rd Ventura/SB County line. > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps > -- *Chance favors the prepared mind, you can MAKE it a great day!* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Paul Begin forwarded message: > From: Marta Alvarez > Date: September 19, 2011 10:38:34 AM PDT > To: paul jr petrich > Subject: Fwd: County Press Release: Coastal Cleanup Day Nets Over 6000 Pounds in Santa Barbara County! > Reply-To: YCE Engineers & Surveyors > > Hi Paul, > Don't know if you've posted to the rainlist already - but here is the info from the press release. > Thanks for doing that too!! > Hope you have a great week. > Marta > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: County Press Release: Coastal Cleanup Day Nets Over 6000 Pounds in Santa Barbara County! > Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:54:15 -0700 > From: Simeon, Jeffrey > To: Simeon, Jeffrey > > > Hello News Media and Representatives, > > Attached is a press release for today?s Coastal Cleanup Day in Santa Barbara County. This event had a huge turn out with over 1100 participants collecting 6180 pounds of debris from local waterways. > > If you would like more details about the event, please direct questions to me. > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > Jeffrey Simeon > Coastal Cleanup Day Program Specialist > County of Santa Barbara, Public Works Department > Resource Recovery & Waste Management Division > jsimeon at cosbpw.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Coastal Cleanup Day Nets Over 6000 Pounds in Santa Barbara County.doc Type: application/msword Size: 800256 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Wed Sep 21 11:00:50 2011 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:00:50 -0700 Subject: [CINC] 9/23/11 Santuary Advisory Council (SAC) Meeting Message-ID: CINC Volunteers: The next CINMS Sanctuary Advisory Council (SAC) meeting will be held on Friday, September 23, 2011 in Santa Barbara. You are encouraged to attend SAC meetings and will receive credit for volunteer hours on your time sheet (put it under training). If there is a specific agenda item that interests you can participate in that portion of the meeting only. Thanks you, Shauna Public Meeting Announcement: Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Sanctuary Advisory Council Meeting Friday, September 23, 2011 9:00 am ? 2:30 pm Casa Las Palmas 323 E. Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara, CA D R A F T A G E N D A All times are subject to possible adjustment. 9:00-10:15am 1. Administrative Business and Announcements A. Comment on/Adoption of July 22nd, 2011 Draft Key Outcomes (Council Action Requested) B. Sanctuary Superintendent?s Report (No Council Action Requested) C. Council Executive Committee Report (No Council Action Requested) D. Brief Council Member Announcements (No Council Action Requested) 10:15-10:30am 2. Public Comment (1st of 2) (may be extended at the discretion of the Chair or used as a break) 10:30-11:15am 3. Guest Speaker: Dennis Long, Executive Director, Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation (No Council Action Requested) * Dennis Long will talk about the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation?s mission, work, and plans, including a recent move to also begin doing business as the Channel Islands Sanctuary Foundation. * Council Questions and Discussion. 11:15-12:00pm 4. Updates on Ocean Acidification Work (No Council Action Requested) * Staff updates on ocean acidification education planning, and the west coast regional ocean acidification action plan for sanctuaries. * Council member reports on involvement with ocean acidification projects (Bruce Steele, Phyllis Grifman, Linda Krop, others) * Council Questions and Discussion. 12:00-1:00pm LUNCH BREAK (Group lunch option for members that RSVP?d in advance - $10.00) 1:00-1:30pm 5. Report on Oil Spill Exercise (No Council Action Requested) * Staff summary of the US Coast Guard?s National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (NPREP) oil spill drill conducted locally on September 13-15, 2011. * Council Discussion and Questions. 1:30-1:45pm 6. Public Comment (2nd of 2) (may be extended at the discretion of the Chair or used as a break) 1:45-2:15pm 7. Working Group Reports (No Council Action Requested) Brief reports/announcements from active sub-groups: A. Channel Islands Technical Advisory Committee on Enforcement (Bill Struble, NOAA Office of Law Enforcement) B. Chumash Community Working Group (Luhui Isha, Vennise Miller-Forte) C. Sanctuary Education Team (Maria Petueli) D. Research Activities Panel (Dr. Bob Warner or Dr. Mark Steele) E. Recreational Fishing Working Group (Capt. David Bacon) F. Commercial Fishing Working Group (Bruce Steele) G. Conservation Working Group (Linda Krop) 2:15-2:30pm 8. Meeting Close-Out (Council Action Requested) * Schedule for remaining 2011 meetings: Friday, November 18, Ventura * Council Action: Adopt a 2012 Meeting Schedule (based on staff-proposed dates) 2:30pm ADJOURN ----- DIRECTIONS: Casa Las Palmas, 323 E. Cabrillo Blvd., Santa Barbara, CA 1) Take U.S. 101 north or southbound to Santa Barbara 2) Exit on GARDEN Street 3) Turn toward the ocean on GARDEN 4) Turn LEFT on CABRILLO Blvd. at the beach 5) Casa Las Palmas is on the left (inland) side within Chase Palm Park, at 323 E. Cabrillo Blvd., near the playground 6) Parking is available along the beach side of Cabrillo Blvd or in the beach front parking lot (enter at intersection of Cabrillo & Garden) From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Wed Sep 21 14:07:33 2011 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:07:33 -0700 Subject: [CINC] OCTOBER OUTREACH OPENINGS Message-ID: <9b21c49ad418ab6.4e79efa5@noaa.gov> OCTOBER OUTREACH OPENINGS: Community outreach is an important part of the CINC program and we still have openings at the following October events: Saturday, October 1, 2011; Noon - 4:30 pm: Washington School Eco-Fair, Santa Barbara Saturday, October 8, 2011, 9 am - 530 pm: Santa Barbara Harbor and Seafood Festival Thursday, October 27, 2011, 3 pm - 630 pm: Laguna Blanca School Science Night, Santa Barbara Thank you for taking the time to view the calendars and help us provide ample CINC coverage for these planned events. FORMAL EDUCATION OUTREACH: On a related note, we are seeking one - two volunteers interested in working with the park on outreach to formal educators over the next school year. Formal education events require volunteers that are interested in providing information about sanctuary and park educator resources, programs, and curricula. Thank you, Shauna From ciharbor1 at roadrunner.com Wed Sep 21 16:00:22 2011 From: ciharbor1 at roadrunner.com (Carol Shoemaker) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:00:22 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Question Message-ID: A friend doing beach cleanup on Oxnard shores saw 4 dead cormorants and many, many, many dead sand crabs and small shore crabs. Any ideas about why. I know that there are often lots of dead sand crabs, but these seemed to be more than the normal number. Carol -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Paul has also agreed to do another blue whale skeleten talk in the future. So I am sure Shauna will look into that possibility. In the meantime, this is great information. Enjoy. Chad?s Stats Size: Original 1980 specimen was ~ 72 feet long Remounted skeleton is approximately 74 feet long Estimated mass of a 74 ft Blue Whale is around 120 tons Skeleton: 1) Skeleton is comprised of 175-177 bones 2) Bones of skeleton are from 5 individuals 1980 blue whale: post cranial skeleton First 2007 blue whale: skull and lower mandibles Second 2007 blue whale: left ear bone Third 2007 blue whale from SMI: right ear bone LACM blue whale: last five tail vertebrae 3) Skeleton weight ~7,672 lbs Skull and mandibles weith 3,946 lbs Vertebrae weigh ~2,600 lbs Front limbs weigh ~325 lbs All of the other bones weigh ~761 lbs 4) Number of cast bones in the skelton 5 caudal vertebrae 1.5 posterior ribs 1 ear bone 10 phalanges and carpals 5) The exhibited skeleton is made up of 95-98% real bone 6) Changes made to the remounted skeleton Position of the mandibles Orientation of the hyoid bones Position of the sternum Position and orientation of the ribs Position and orientation of the front limbs Orientation of the vertebral column Missing elements cast and included on remounted skeleton Completely new steel framework to support the skeleton Shape of the Whale in the Concrete This shape in the concrete represents a frontal section also known as a coronal plain view of the whale. This plain or section view of the body cuts the body in half from head to tail separating the dorsal and ventral portions of the body along the plain of the tail fluke. It represents the shape of the body along this midline at its maximum dimension. Shape is ~74 ft long from tip of the mandibles to the notch Tail is 18.5 feet wide (e. g. tip to tip) Adaptations for Efficient Cruising Blue whales can reach swimming speeds of 27.23 ft/sec which enables them to traverse long expanses of ocean in search of their preferred prey. Their morphology is indicative of a species designed for steady, high speed, efficient cruising in a pelagic environment with low maneuvering requirements. To reach this speed Blue Whales have the most elongated, stream-lined body form with the highest fineness ratio and lowest volumetric coefficient for any of the baleen whales. The following are morphological adaptations that reduce resistance (drag) and increase efficiency for steady swimming: 1) Stiff streamlined bodies 2) Small, high aspect ratio flippers and flukes for fast efficient cruising. The small flipper and fluke surface areas relative to the size of a Blue Whale?s body helps to reduce draft and increase swimming efficiency. 3) Small high aspect ratio flukes (tails) and stiff streamlined bodies reduce resistance-drag and increase efficiency for steady swimming. High-aspect ratio flukes represents a hydrodynamic feature that improves their propulsive efficiency. They can exert more thrust for their fluke area for a given speed while reducing drag. Calm Seas, Catherine French Writer, mentor, naturalist 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cfrench1366 at aol.com Wed Sep 21 18:14:01 2011 From: cfrench1366 at aol.com (Catherine French) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:14:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CINC] Fwd: Making sense of the national parks budget fight In-Reply-To: <16619958.1316625838584.JavaMail.www@app339> References: <16619958.1316625838584.JavaMail.www@app339> Message-ID: <8CE46DC0BC6D575-186C-60FAD@webmail-d059.sysops.aol.com> Info about national park budget battles. Calm Seas, Catherine French Writer, mentor, naturalist 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Kiernan, NPCA To: cfrench1366 Sent: Wed, Sep 21, 2011 10:23 am Subject: Making sense of the national parks budget fight Click here to learn more about NPCA?s campaign against cuts to our national parks budget. Dear Catherine, Now that Congress is back in session, we have a clearer picture of what recent events mean for the national parks budget, though times are very unusual and much remains to be seen. 2012 Budget Proposal Might Improve Though the next fiscal year, 2012, begins on October 1, the national parks budget still remains to be seen. The good news is that the Senate spending bill that covers national parks has a larger pie to divide than the House did--almost $2 billion higher--so NPCA is working to ensure that our national parks get some of that additional funding and receive a higher level than was proposed in the House back in July. Damaging Policy Riders Are Still a Threat The terrible add-ons we?ve been warning you about--like authorizing more uranium mining near the Grand Canyon--could still come up at any point in the process. Additionally, because Congress is unlikely to pass an actual 2012 budget before the September 30 deadline, we expect them to keep the government--and our national parks--open by passing at least one continuing resolution this month, and possibly more temporary measures later this fall. NPCA will continue to monitor the situation and we?ll let you know if we need your help to defend the parks budget once again. Congressional Super Committee to Make Decisions Vitally Important to Our National Parks Finally, the August debt deal already made cuts to discretionary budgets to take place over the next decade, and it is unclear how this may affect parks. On top of this, as you may have heard, the debt ceiling deal also created a special bipartisan congressional committee charged with identifying, before Thanksgiving, at least $1.2 trillion in additional budget cuts to take place over the next 10 years. NPCA is already hard at work to make sure this process doesn't result in drastic cuts to our national parks. We know that our parks are big economic engines in gateway communities and that by protecting our national treasures, they also serve a vital economic purpose. Gutting our national parks is not the way to balance our budget. They cost us very little yet protect our national treasures for future generations and support hundreds of thousands of private-sector jobs. If the ?super committee? can?t reach a deal on how to reduce the annual budget deficit, it will force automatic and drastic cuts to the national parks. This is really a doomsday scenario for our national parks. The automatic cuts would translate to a roughly 9% cut for programs, including the National Park Service. No one wants to see that happen, so NPCA will keep the pressure on and make sure that Congress knows there are tens of thousands of Americans just like you who don?t want to see any further cuts to our national parks budget. Find Out More This is just an overview of where we stand in keeping our national parks adequately funded for today and for future generations. If you?re interested in getting down to the real nitty-gritty, there are many great resources on the NPCA website. Click here to learn more about NPCA?s all-hands-on-deck campaign against cuts to our national parks budget. Thank you so much for standing with us in these budget campaigns. We could not defend our national parks without you. Sincerely, Thomas C. Kiernan President Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter This message was sent to cfrench1366 at aol.com by the National Parks Conservation Association. 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We were about 5 miles offshore of AI's north shore heading straight for the cove when the Orcas appeared on our bow. Earlier we had a visit from about 50 common dolphin in our stern wake. There were 3 adults and two juveniles in the pod, they weren't very showy or friendly, but we got good views. Great day on the island, I was on plankton two and urchin larval citizen science project, Marty Flam was onboard to assist with the ice plant pullers. Vanguard arrived with only three passengers to off load, so I lead them on a hike to Inspiration Point and while there met up with kayak guide John from CI Outfitters with high school students that had shuttled over on the Island Adventure for a hike and kayaking at AI. He asked me to talk about Frenchy, or Raymond LaDrue and explain how he lived there and how the cover got that name. Also, did some see collection for Sarah Chaney who was on island as well. Capt. Dennis Carlson mentioned when they picked us up that they observed 5 Rissos dolphins as they were nearing SBI then on their way back to pick us up they saw them again on the south side of AI about 5 miles offshore. That's today's report! Calm Seas, Catherine French Writer, mentor, naturalist 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From laura_email2000 at yahoo.com Wed Sep 21 19:29:25 2011 From: laura_email2000 at yahoo.com (Laura Shelton) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Open PID on Friday, September 23! Message-ID: <1316658565.32853.YahooMailNeo@web160101.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> HI All, Hope someone can take this shift on Friday! Sorry for the late notice. Laura Shelton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From camccleskey at yahoo.com Wed Sep 21 22:18:32 2011 From: camccleskey at yahoo.com (Carolyn McCleskey) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] blue whale skeleten fact sheet In-Reply-To: <8CE46D8D1766555-186C-60CBC@webmail-d059.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <1316668712.85957.YahooMailClassic@web160710.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Catherine,? even those who were in attendance? will appreciate this complete outline of what was covered in Paul's talk.? Thanks for making sure we all know the facts !? Carolyn --- On Wed, 9/21/11, Catherine French wrote: From: Catherine French Subject: [CINC] blue whale skeleten fact sheet To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 5:50 PM Hi all: I had emailed Paul Collins regarding his blue whale skeleten talk for those of you who missed?his presentation at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History to get the pertinent information from the talk and he has supplied them below. ? Paul has also?agreed to do another blue whale skeleten talk in the future. So I am sure Shauna will look into that possibility. In the meantime, this is great information. Enjoy. ? ? Chad?s Stats ? Size: Original 1980 specimen was ~ 72 feet long Remounted skeleton is approximately 74 feet long Estimated mass of a 74 ft Blue Whale is around 120 tons ? Skeleton:? 1) Skeleton is comprised of 175-177 bones 2) Bones of skeleton are from 5 individuals ??????????????????????? 1980 blue whale: post cranial skeleton ??????????????????????? First 2007 blue whale:? skull and lower mandibles ??????????????????????? Second 2007 blue whale:? left ear bone ??????????????????????? Third 2007 blue whale from SMI:? right ear bone ??????????????????????? LACM blue whale: last five tail vertebrae 3) Skeleton weight? ~7,672 lbs ??????????? Skull and mandibles weith 3,946 lbs ??????????? Vertebrae weigh ~2,600 lbs ??????????? Front limbs weigh ~325 lbs ??????????? All of the other bones weigh ~761 lbs 4) Number of cast bones in the skelton ??????????? 5 caudal vertebrae ??????????? 1.5 posterior ribs ??????????? 1 ear bone ??????????? 10 phalanges and carpals 5)? The exhibited skeleton is made up of 95-98% real bone 6) Changes made to the remounted skeleton ??????????? Position of the mandibles ??????????? Orientation of the hyoid bones ??????????? Position of the sternum ??????????? Position and orientation of the ribs???? ??????????? Position and orientation of the front limbs ??????????? Orientation of the vertebral column ??????????? Missing elements cast and included on remounted skeleton ??????????? Completely new steel framework to support the skeleton ? Shape of the Whale in the Concrete ? This shape in the concrete represents a frontal section also known as a coronal plain view of the whale. ?This plain or section view of the body cuts the body in half from head to tail separating the dorsal and ventral portions of the body along the plain of the tail fluke.? It represents the shape of the body along this midline at its maximum dimension.? ??????????? Shape is ~74 ft long from tip of the mandibles to the notch ??????????? Tail is 18.5 feet wide (e. g. tip to tip) ? ? Adaptations for Efficient Cruising ? Blue whales can reach swimming speeds of 27.23 ft/sec which enables them to traverse long expanses of ocean in search of their preferred prey.? Their morphology is indicative of a species designed for steady, high speed, efficient cruising in a pelagic environment with low maneuvering requirements.? To reach this speed Blue Whales have the most elongated, stream-lined body form with the highest fineness ratio and lowest volumetric coefficient for any of the baleen whales.? ? The following are morphological adaptations that reduce resistance (drag) and increase efficiency for steady swimming: 1)????? Stiff streamlined bodies 2)????? Small, high aspect ratio flippers and flukes for fast efficient cruising.? The small flipper and fluke surface areas relative to the size of a Blue Whale?s body helps to reduce draft and increase swimming efficiency. 3)????? Small high aspect ratio flukes (tails) and stiff streamlined bodies reduce resistance-drag and increase efficiency for steady swimming.? High-aspect ratio flukes represents a hydrodynamic feature that improves their propulsive efficiency.? They can exert more thrust for their fluke area for a given speed while reducing drag.? Calm Seas, ? Catherine French Writer, mentor, naturalist 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tara_brown_sb at yahoo.com Thu Sep 22 07:37:09 2011 From: tara_brown_sb at yahoo.com (TARA BROWN) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] The Sea Otter's Return to Southern California In-Reply-To: <13758690.1316389358920.JavaMail.root@mswamui-chipeau.atl.sa.earthlink.net> References: <13758690.1316389358920.JavaMail.root@mswamui-chipeau.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <1316702229.6509.YahooMailNeo@web38308.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi naturalists, ? I went to the SB Maritime Museum talk on "The Sea Otter's Return to Southern California" Tuesday, September 20th.? The presentation was given by Greg Sanders, who wrote the 2005 recommendation to stop the "translocation plan" while he worked for the Fish and Games Department.? ? He discussed the near extinction of sea otters by the Russian American Fur Company in the 1800s.? (There is an excellent coverage of this in the book "San Miguel Island" by Lois Roberts.)? William Dana hunted out of Santa Barbara, and also the mountain man George Nidever.? He recommended reading "The Life and Adventures of George Nidever." ? In 1911, sea otter hunting was banned.? Sea otters?were thought to have been hunted to extinction on the California coast.? The "Monterey clan" wasn't discovered until 1940.? Public Law 99-625 has listed the sea otter as "endangered." ? The 1987 "translocation"=elimination of sea otters from Southern California also relocated 140 over three years to San Nicholas Island.? There are 40 sea otters around San Nicholas today. ? The translocation was stopped in 1993, but the law was not changed.?Mr. Sanders, who wrote the recommendation to stop the translocation in 2005 for Fish and Games, said that the recommendation to stop the translocation was never finalized, and that it is out to public comment again! ? There are now 75 sea otters south east of Pt. Conception.? ? There are around 2,700 sea otters in total today. ? - Tara Brown -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cfrench1366 at aol.com Thu Sep 22 09:43:55 2011 From: cfrench1366 at aol.com (Catherine French) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:43:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CINC] Blue whale skeleton Message-ID: <8CE475DF380D562-2AC0-A9035@webmail-m168.sysops.aol.com> I have received many thanks for sending out the Paul Collins info, nice to have a consice look at the basic facts about blues. So nice of Paul to share. There is a cool web site I use (one among many) that seems to be on top of their facts. Hal Altman had done a calucalation based on the fact sheet from Paul as to the speed a blue whale can swim. It is most likely a reflection of an average day of swimming for feeding or maybe even migrating to conserve energy as he MPH was less than 4 miles an hour. Here is what EnchantedLearning.com has to say. Go to their web page for additional fun facts. EnchantedLearning.com SPEED Blue whales are very fast swimmers; they normally swim 3-20 mph (4.8-32 kph), but can go up to 24-30 mph (38-48 kph) in bursts when in danger. Feeding speeds are slower, about 1-4 mph (1.6-6.2 kph). DIVING Blue whales can dive for up to an hour, going to a depth of 350 feet (105 m). Calm Seas, Catherine French Writer, mentor, naturalist 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Thu Sep 22 10:33:33 2011 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:33:33 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Blue whale skeleton In-Reply-To: <8CE475DF380D562-2AC0-A9035@webmail-m168.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CE475DF380D562-2AC0-A9035@webmail-m168.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: FYI -- Enchanted Learning averages on blue whale dives are a bit lower than what research suggests for this region - blue whales tagged near the Channel Islands have been documented foraging for krill in depths greater than 600 feet (WHAP 1996 http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/people/croll/pdf/Fiedler_1998.pdf) and according to Croll (http://channelislands.noaa.gov/res/pdf/RorqlDiving1.pdf) blue whales in the NE Pacific average dive time and depths: 459'/ 140.0 (? 46.01) m and 7.8 (? 1.89) min when foraging, and 67.6 (?51.46) m and 4.9 (?2.53) min when not foraging In the WHAP 96 study link above take a look at the section on seasonal patterns of krill and species of krill targeted by blue whales. it is helpful in understanding blue whale foraging behaviors and distribution patterns around the Channel Islands. --Shauna ----- Original Message ----- From: Catherine French Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:51 am Subject: [CINC] Blue whale skeleton To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > I have received many thanks for sending out the Paul Collins info, > nice to have a consice look at the basic facts about blues. So nice of > Paul to share. > > There is a cool web site I use (one among many) that seems to be on > top of their facts. Hal Altman had done a calucalation based on the > fact sheet from Paul as to the speed a blue whale can swim. It is most > likely a reflection of an average day of swimming for feeding or maybe > even migrating to conserve energy as he MPH was less than 4 miles an hour. > > Here is what EnchantedLearning.com has to say. Go to their web page > for additional fun facts. > > > EnchantedLearning.com > > SPEED > Blue whales are very fast swimmers; they normally swim 3-20 mph > (4.8-32 kph), but can go up to 24-30 mph (38-48 kph) in bursts when in > danger. Feeding speeds are slower, about 1-4 mph (1.6-6.2 kph). > > DIVING > Blue whales can dive for up to an hour, going to a depth of 350 feet > (105 m). > > > > Calm Seas, > > Catherine French > Writer, mentor, naturalist > 805.570.0432 > To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > From larry.driscoll at sbcglobal.net Thu Sep 22 17:15:43 2011 From: larry.driscoll at sbcglobal.net (Larry Driscoll) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] CINC Condor Whale Watch trip 9-22-11 Message-ID: <1316736943.91607.YahooMailRC@web83601.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> The weather was overcast with flat seas for the whole trip.? Captain Dave, Matt and Dane turned up sightings that included a total of?2500 common dolphins in several pods/mega-pods, with lots of calves, all exhibiting feeding behavior.? The 38 passengers loved it.? We went by N. SC Island and took a look at sea lions and harbor seals as well as painted cave.? On the way home we spotted a blue whale and stayed with it through a few feeding cycles.? Passengers loved this?final capper to the day! Naturalists on board were Rae Emmett, Don Tillies (PID)?and?me. ?Larry Driscoll larry.driscoll at sbcglobal.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From David_Begun at nps.gov Thu Sep 22 17:29:21 2011 From: David_Begun at nps.gov (David_Begun at nps.gov) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:29:21 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Sea otter public hearing to be held in Ventura, CA on September 27, 2011 Message-ID: Dear Interested Parties: On August 17, 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a notice in the Federal Register that it will hold public hearings, preceded by public information sessions, on October 4 and 6, 2011. These hearings are regarding the Service's proposal to end the 24-year-old southern sea otter translocation program in California following an in-depth evaluation that found the program is not meeting its objectives for recovery of the species. The Service has added another public hearing on September 27, 2011, in Ventura, California. The public hearings provide a formal, structured opportunity for interested parties to verbally express comments or to submit written comments on the proposed rule, associated Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA), or the Revised Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS). The public information sessions provide an opportunity for the public to meet Service staff and discuss the proposal with them prior to the hearing. The additional public hearing will be held at the following location: September 27, 2011 Channel Islands National Park auditorium 1901 Spinnaker Drive Ventura, CA 93001 (805) 658-5700 Public information session 5:00-6:00 p.m. PDT Public hearing 6:00-8:00 p.m. PDT As previously announced, the other two public hearings will be held at the following locations: October 4, 2011 Fleischmann Auditorium Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2559 Puesta Del Sol Santa Barbara, CA 93105 805-682-4711 Public information session 5:00-6:00 p.m. PDT Public hearing 6:00-8:00 p.m. PDT October 6, 2011 La Feliz Room Seymour Marine Discovery Center, Long Marine Laboratory 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 831-459-3800 Public information session 5:00-6:00 p.m. PDT Public hearing 6:00-8:00 p.m. PDT Comments must be received by October 24, 2011. The Service will post all comments on http://www.regulations.gov. Comments may be submitted on the proposed rule, associated Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (IRFA), or Revised Draft SEIS by one of the following methods: -Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments to Docket No. [FWS?R8?FHC?2011?0046]. -U.S. mail or hand-delivery: Public Comments Processing, Attn: Docket No. [FWS?R8?FHC?2011?0046]; Division of Policy and Directives Management; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, MS 2042?PDM; Arlington, VA 22203. -Verbally by attending one of the formal public hearings. Written comments may also be submitted at the public hearings. For more information about the southern sea otter and to view the proposed rule, associated IRFA or Revised Draft SEIS, please visit http://www.fws.gov/ventura/species_information/so_sea_otter/index.html . If you have questions, please call me at (805) 644-1766, ext. 332. Thank you, Lois Grunwald Public Affairs Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office Phone: 805/644-1766, ext 332 Mobile: 805/794-0225 email: lois_grunwald at fws.gov Lois Grunwald Public Affairs Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office Phone: 805/644-1766, ext 332 Mobile: 805/794-0225 email: lois_grunwald at fws.gov From David_Begun at nps.gov Fri Sep 23 14:43:47 2011 From: David_Begun at nps.gov (David_Begun at nps.gov) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:43:47 -0700 Subject: [CINC] New IPCO booking procedures Message-ID: In our ongoing effort to improve our system for booking volunteer activities with Island Packers we are implementing the following changes to our system. These changes only apply to Island Packers day trip and whale watch activities. There are no changes to procedures and rules for overnight island assignments with IPCO, or for activities with any of our other partners. Volunteers will continue to use volunteer spot to book all IPCO whale watch, island day hike, and Scorpion visitor center activities. As before, you may sign up for one of each type activity that you are trained and certified for as of 7:00 A.M. on the third Tuesday of each month for activities occurring the following month. As of 7:00 A.M. on the Friday following the third Tuesday of each month you may sign up for as many trips as you wish of any type activity that you are trained and certified for. Once you have secured an assignment for an activity with IPCO on volunteer spot you must contact Island Packers directly by phone at: 805-642-1393 and reserve a spot on the boat. Tell them you have secured the assignment on volunteer spot and let them know which activity, island, date and time you are making the reservation for, and that this is a "volunteer comp spot". You will need to also give them your name and contact information at this time. Once this is done and confirmed, IPCO will give you a confirmation number (the "R" number). If you have a change in plans and need to cancel, you must contact IPCO directly with that information by phone and let them know. You then should go to volunteer spot and remove your name from the activity and post a notice on the rain list that the activity is open and in need of replacement. Volunteers wishing to fill that replacement spot should sign up directly on volunteer spot as they would for any new assignment and follow the procedures listed above to make their boat reservation. If any changes occur on IPCO's end they will contact the volunteer directly to notify them of the changes. For all direct contact with IPCO, they request that we not call them during the hour prior to any boat departures. Boat schedules can be found on their website: www.islandpackers.com. Any activity not filled by a volunteer within 48 hours of the day it occurs is subject to being deleted if the boat fills up, so it is essential that you call and book your reservation before that time period. Last minute sign ups are still permitted using the above procedures if boat space permits. We hope that these changes will help eliminate the confusion that we have had regarding these activities and that they will allow for greater accuracy, control and efficiency for all involved. These changes will take affect for any activities from October 1 and beyond so please contact IPCO for anything you have signed up for from that date on. Key points of the new system are: Applies only to IPCO day trip and whale watch activities Still use volunteer spot to sign up for activities Once signed up volunteer contacts IPCO to reserve spot on boat Volunteer contacts IPCO regarding any changes, along with posting notice on rain list and updating volunteer spot calendar Don't contact IPCO during hour prior to any boat departures Thank you for your understanding as we make these necessary revisions to our system. Dave David Begun Channel Islands National Park david_begun at nps.gov 805-658-5731 From bart at vnusinfo.com Fri Sep 23 17:21:06 2011 From: bart at vnusinfo.com (Bart Francis) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:21:06 -0700 Subject: [CINC] SCI Day Hike Available Message-ID: <910B682C-86DF-4F9B-9F01-69ED79FF8978@vnusinfo.com> I have had a change of schedule and will have to give up my SCI hike on Monday, 10/17. I have cancelled off of the Volunteer Spot signup list, and so the trip is available for anyone who wants to sign up. Bart Francis From tara_brown_sb at yahoo.com Sat Sep 24 18:22:52 2011 From: tara_brown_sb at yahoo.com (TARA BROWN) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Condor Veneco Oil Seep Trip Message-ID: <1316913772.77845.YahooMailNeo@web38306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 100 common dolphin Lots of sea lions ? Paul Petrich and I were fortunate enough to go out on the Condor Express Saturday morning with Mike Edwards of Veneco explaining the "hydrocarbons" and oil seeps along the coast, especially by Platform Holly.????Both two hour trips were full, and the 8:30 am trip had 33 San Marcos High School students, 10 UCSB chemical engineer students,?several?Carpinteria?Rotarians, and lots of interested local people.?? Thanks to Captain Mat, Dave, and Matt in galley for allowing us on this educational trip.?? Here are highlights of what we learned: ? Near Hope Ranch, we stopped and looked at an area where the Monterey Shale?was "sluffing" and had exposed a hydrocarbon vein.? Mr Edwards explained that sprinklers were watering the exposed area to avoid a "burn" caused when the hydrocarbons on the surface combine with oxygen.? When I inquired later, he said that natural fires may start from these exposed areas. ? The carbons, which compose the oil being drilled in our channel today, date back 5-17 million years ago from diatoms laid on the ocean floor.? ? We stopped also by the area where the barge ties up now.? The tie-up was built by Bank Line Oil in 1929, and as you have probably read in the news just this week is due to be replaced by a pipeline within the year.? ? The most impressive was the "Shane Seep" near Platform Holly.? The bubbles rising were like a cauldron and the oil on the water was psychedelic colors.? He said the bubbles rise at 3 meters/second, which is a huge amount of pressure being released.?? If the oil wells released this same amount of oil that comes naturally from this seep,?Veneco would be charged $10,000 a day for polluting.???Mr. Edwards suggested looking at www.bubbleology.com?for more information about seeps. ? Platform Holly was built in 1966 by Arco in 211 feet of water.? It is the only oil platform in State waters (all others are in Federal waters) and has 30 wells that go 10,000 feet into the floor of the ocean.? There are three different layers of pipe.? From 20,000 barrels of oil and water,?Veneco gets 2,000 barrels of oil. ? The Ellwood field just north of Platform Holly by the Barcara was first explored in 1929 and produced over 1,000,000 barrels of oil.?? There is only one well still left, and the pier was turned into a roosting structure for Brandt's cormorants and pelicans. ? Also, I found it interesting that the Chumash indians thought the?seeps were mendicinal. ? 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Although we were unable to enter Painted Cave due to kelp at the entrance, passengers got a pretty good look and a nice trip along the shore of Santa Cruz Island before heading home. Many thanks to Captain Dave and crew Brooke and Dennis as well as CINC Naturalist Tamara Thompson. Pam Yerger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppetrich39 at me.com Sat Sep 24 19:27:12 2011 From: ppetrich39 at me.com (paul jr petrich) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:27:12 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor Veneco Oil Seep Trip In-Reply-To: <1316913772.77845.YahooMailNeo@web38306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <1316913772.77845.YahooMailNeo@web38306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <466C0608-3E5C-449C-9797-97D657B4B633@me.com> Hello All. Great job Tara! The attached link will connect you to a SB Independent article of this August that summarizes some facts behind Tara's great coverage about the mysterious "volcanos" that have been reported throughout history along our coast. The "Rincon Volcano" described in the article existed very close to Rincon Park, where we have had our last two CINC Sunset Picnics. Also, of interest, the diatoms settling on the sea floor that Tara describes, were also the source of the diatomaceous earth that re-crystalized to become the Chert that was so valuable to the ancient Chumash on East "Limuw". Paul http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/the-santa-barbara-volcanic-cliffs-are-smoldering-once-again/ On Sep 24, 2011, at 6:22 PM, TARA BROWN wrote: > 100 common dolphin > Lots of sea lions > > Paul Petrich and I were fortunate enough to go out on the Condor Express Saturday morning with Mike Edwards of Veneco explaining the "hydrocarbons" and oil seeps along the coast, especially by Platform Holly. Both two hour trips were full, and the 8:30 am trip had 33 San Marcos High School students, 10 UCSB chemical engineer students, several Carpinteria Rotarians, and lots of interested local people. Thanks to Captain Mat, Dave, and Matt in galley for allowing us on this educational trip. Here are highlights of what we learned: > > Near Hope Ranch, we stopped and looked at an area where the Monterey Shale was "sluffing" and had exposed a hydrocarbon vein. Mr Edwards explained that sprinklers were watering the exposed area to avoid a "burn" caused when the hydrocarbons on the surface combine with oxygen. When I inquired later, he said that natural fires may start from these exposed areas. > > The carbons, which compose the oil being drilled in our channel today, date back 5-17 million years ago from diatoms laid on the ocean floor. > > We stopped also by the area where the barge ties up now. The tie-up was built by Bank Line Oil in 1929, and as you have probably read in the news just this week is due to be replaced by a pipeline within the year. > > The most impressive was the "Shane Seep" near Platform Holly. The bubbles rising were like a cauldron and the oil on the water was psychedelic colors. He said the bubbles rise at 3 meters/second, which is a huge amount of pressure being released. If the oil wells released this same amount of oil that comes naturally from this seep, Veneco would be charged $10,000 a day for polluting. Mr. Edwards suggested looking at www.bubbleology.com for more information about seeps. > > Platform Holly was built in 1966 by Arco in 211 feet of water. It is the only oil platform in State waters (all others are in Federal waters) and has 30 wells that go 10,000 feet into the floor of the ocean. There are three different layers of pipe. From 20,000 barrels of oil and water, Veneco gets 2,000 barrels of oil. > > The Ellwood field just north of Platform Holly by the Barcara was first explored in 1929 and produced over 1,000,000 barrels of oil. There is only one well still left, and the pier was turned into a roosting structure for Brandt's cormorants and pelicans. > > Also, I found it interesting that the Chumash indians thought the seeps were mendicinal. > > Best regards, > Tara Brown > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From klez18 at sbcglobal.net Sat Sep 24 20:04:21 2011 From: klez18 at sbcglobal.net (Marty Flam) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:04:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [CINC] Trumpeting Rope and Calf, the Humpbacks Message-ID: <1316919861.13478.YahooMailNeo@web180113.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> CINC ? Friday 9/24 on IPCO crossing out and back to Scopion both Cap Anthony AM and Cap Jimmy PM spotted mother humback named Rope and calf,? I think?both explaining mom's been?a regular here for about 10 years and this is her third calf they've seen.? This fits with CX Mat and Dave's interp, including Mat's eye witness acounts of seeing the rope, color and material, I think trying to scrape it off one day.? I'd enjoy seeing the combined written account. ? Thursday 9/23, on my return from Scorpion to Ventura, IPCO Andrea's Mass. Auduboners and other PRIS to Pelican hikers reported a trumpeting humpback, a phonomenom I don't ever recall.? I'm told the trumpeter was or believed to be Rope. ? Marty F. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ppetrich39 at me.com Sun Sep 25 09:07:28 2011 From: ppetrich39 at me.com (paul jr petrich) Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:07:28 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Doggie Bag Blight Message-ID: <83D63F05-6A82-48C2-B568-133DCD944BE4@me.com> Hi Again Ocean and Beach People, Below is a link to the SantaBarbara Independent's online issue of Friday the 23rd. They ran my article about the Beach Clean-up. Note the first comment about Hendry's Beach, another Dog Friendly beach. I have noticed this often. For out-of-towners, Hendry's is at the end of Las Positas at the beginning of Hope Ranch to the west. It extends both ways from Arroyo Burro Co. Park and the Boat House Restaurant. Paul http://www.independent.com/news/2011/sep/23/doggie-bag-blight/#commenttoggle From cfrench1366 at aol.com Sun Sep 25 11:22:12 2011 From: cfrench1366 at aol.com (Catherine French) Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:22:12 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Congrats to Larry Driscoll Message-ID: Larry, from our humpback pod became certified as a CINC hike guide on Saturday, September 24. And following his certification hike, he got to lead another hike unconstrained by me following him. As all got back on the boat, they gave him praise for his great hikes! Way to go, Larry. We saw five foxes within the first 15 minutes of the beginning of the first hike. And, a not well looking juvenile bald eagle perched on a rock. Bill Weinerth was incognito with a church youth group and got some great shots of the "sickly" raptor. Ranger Randy Nelson contacted biologists that were on TNC property and Ranger Tiffany Leon emailed the photos to them. Our reason for reporting the sighting was in hopes that someone could get the bird and maybe help it or at least find out what made it sick and hopefully save any possible disease (if there is one) from spreading to the island bird population. Hope we get an update on what happened. It was a wonderful and busy day out there. Folks from around the country and the world. No Cetacea to report, just lots of large male sea lions and diving pelicans at Scorpion Cove feasting on tons of top smelt. Another beautiful day on the island! Calm seas, Catherine French Writer, naturalist, mentor 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. Sent from i love my iPad From cfrench1366 at aol.com Mon Sep 26 07:53:31 2011 From: cfrench1366 at aol.com (Catherine French) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:53:31 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Blue whale skeleton In-Reply-To: References: <8CE475DF380D562-2AC0-A9035@webmail-m168.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <85076DF3-9CA9-4607-9113-C3597E2C1A6A@aol.com> I had forwarded the info regarding swim speeds. I noticed the krill foraging stopped at 300 feet. Should have added a disclaimer for that part. Thanks, Shauna! Calm seas, Catherine French Writer, naturalist, mentor 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. Sent from i love my iPad On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov wrote: > FYI -- Enchanted Learning averages on blue whale dives are a bit lower than what research suggests for this region - blue whales tagged near the Channel Islands have been documented foraging for krill in depths greater than 600 feet (WHAP 1996 http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/people/croll/pdf/Fiedler_1998.pdf) and according to Croll (http://channelislands.noaa.gov/res/pdf/RorqlDiving1.pdf) blue whales in the NE Pacific average dive time and depths: > > 459'/ 140.0 (? 46.01) m and 7.8 (? 1.89) min when foraging, > and > 67.6 (?51.46) m and 4.9 (?2.53) min when not foraging > > In the WHAP 96 study link above take a look at the section on seasonal patterns of krill and species of krill targeted by blue whales. it is helpful in understanding blue whale foraging behaviors and distribution patterns around the Channel Islands. > > --Shauna > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Catherine French > Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:51 am > Subject: [CINC] Blue whale skeleton > To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > > >> I have received many thanks for sending out the Paul Collins info, >> nice to have a consice look at the basic facts about blues. So nice of >> Paul to share. >> >> There is a cool web site I use (one among many) that seems to be on >> top of their facts. Hal Altman had done a calucalation based on the >> fact sheet from Paul as to the speed a blue whale can swim. It is most >> likely a reflection of an average day of swimming for feeding or maybe >> even migrating to conserve energy as he MPH was less than 4 miles an hour. >> >> Here is what EnchantedLearning.com has to say. Go to their web page >> for additional fun facts. >> >> >> EnchantedLearning.com >> >> SPEED >> Blue whales are very fast swimmers; they normally swim 3-20 mph >> (4.8-32 kph), but can go up to 24-30 mph (38-48 kph) in bursts when in >> danger. Feeding speeds are slower, about 1-4 mph (1.6-6.2 kph). >> >> DIVING >> Blue whales can dive for up to an hour, going to a depth of 350 feet >> (105 m). >> >> >> >> Calm Seas, >> >> Catherine French >> Writer, mentor, naturalist >> 805.570.0432 >> To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list >> Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org >> From macdonald at geol.ucsb.edu Mon Sep 26 13:59:01 2011 From: macdonald at geol.ucsb.edu (Ken Macdonald) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:59:01 -0700 Subject: [CINC] FW: [MSI-News] Wednesday, Sept 28 - UCSB FORUM SHARING THE OCEAN: SEARCHING FOR SAFE PASSAGE FOR WHALES AND SHIPS In-Reply-To: <4E80DE6C.4050809@msi.ucsb.edu> Message-ID: I am still up in the northwest waiting to see Condit Dam removed, opening the White Salmon river to salmon and steelhead runs for the first time in 100 years (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgMFNk526w&NR=1) , so I will miss this great forum, but maybe some of you will enjoy this: UCSB FORUM: "Sharing the Ocean: Searching for Safe Passage for Whales and Ships" - Wednesday, September 28 1:30 - 4:00pm, UCSB Bren Hall 1414 - Free On September 28th, join us for a free public educational workshop on whale migration, feeding, shipping transportation, and ship strikes in the Santa Barbara Channel. Meet professionals and activists who are working on these issues. Students and the public are invited to attend all (or portions of) the workshop as it fits with their schedule. The Event is sponsored by the UCSB Coastal Fund and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. *Panelists Include:* Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary National Marine Fisheries Service Santa Barbara Co. Air Pollution Control District U.S. Navy/AIR Sustainability Office U.S. Coast Guard Environmental Defense Center WHEN: Wednesday, September 28 1:30 - 4:00pm WHERE: UCSB Bren Hall 1414; followed by a mixer with hors d' oeuvres & beverages in the courtyard For a detailed flyer and schedule of events to be hosted during this forum visit:http://www.environmentaldefensecenter.org/news/upcoming_events/index.h tml -- Erica Aguilera and Alyssa Hall Outreach and Education Coordinators Coastal Fund Associated Students, UC Santa Barbara coastalfund.org facebook.com/coastalfund twitter.com/coastalfund _______________________________________________ MSI-News mailing list MSI-News at lists.msi.ucsb.edu https://lists.msi.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/msi-news ------ End of Forwarded Message -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kensword at cox.net Mon Sep 26 14:30:26 2011 From: kensword at cox.net (Kenneth A. Tatro) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:30:26 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Blue Whale Skeleton at the SBMNH Message-ID: <96E20565-5706-4057-A85C-1AC5FC35BA08@cox.net> Hi folks, Here is a photo set of the Blue Whale Skeleton at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, at which many of us were able to view, walk within and listen to the fine presentation by Dr. Paul Collins, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the museum, in August. If you were there, you will remember it well. If you missed it, maybe this will give you a peek at what was presented. Of course you can go to the Museum, 24/7 to view this fine exhibit It is in front, next to the parking lot. You cannot miss it. Here is the link to my photo sharing site for this gallery. Once into it, you will see the introduction text, good info, with the photos below. For best resolution, it is highly recommended to go up to the upper right hand corner, just above the intro text, and click on the little box labeled "slide show," and it will open up full screen. Or, you can just click through them at your leisure. Do stretch out the window to a larger image. When finished, hit your ESC key or go to the upper right hand corner, again, above the intro text and click on the words "Return to Gallery, and your are out. http://bluesequoia.smugmug.com/Nature/Blue-Whale-Skeleton-SBMNH-Aug/19171467_W2MBWv#1493981410_WfXKg3k Enjoy. Ken Tatro From vfolson at cox.net Mon Sep 26 16:18:40 2011 From: vfolson at cox.net (Valerie Olson) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:18:40 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor on Monday, 26 Sept Message-ID: <5628DB95-3DCE-4442-873C-90BB5D4858BC@cox.net> Hi All, Count for today: MInke Whales - 2 Common Dolphins - 2 pods of 1500 and 1000 Partly overcast, partly sunny and seas that were sometimes flat and sometimes with lots of swell. The two pods of dolphins had many, many babies and both babies and adults were most enjoyable to watch. Most of our visitors were thoroughly charmed with the show. Valerie Olson, Michael Berg and Don Gilles From David_Begun at nps.gov Tue Sep 27 11:11:44 2011 From: David_Begun at nps.gov (David_Begun at nps.gov) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:11:44 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Fw: Prisoners Harbor Wetland article attached Message-ID: Nice article in the VC Star today about the Prisoners Harbor wetland project http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/100-years-later-channel-island-wetlands-to-be-restored-.html From sally.eagle at cox.net Tue Sep 27 11:22:05 2011 From: sally.eagle at cox.net (Sally Eagle) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:22:05 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Thursday PID on CX now open Message-ID: Under the weather and hoping to surface soon. Please, someone, take my PID spot on Thursday 9/29! It's open on Volunteer Spot. Thanks, Sally -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jjwinkel at cox.net Tue Sep 27 12:26:26 2011 From: jjwinkel at cox.net (Cubby Winkel) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:26:26 -0700 Subject: [CINC] ESCI Hike Monday October 3 Message-ID: <009601cc7d4b$5ad72490$10856db0$@net> Hi all, First off I would like to thank all of you who have shown me support with my recent injury. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Now I've just returned from seeing the Doctor and he has told me that I should not be doing any hikes this soon so I have taken my name off the Santa Cruz hike for Monday October 3. I would be very grateful if someone would take it as it is now open. Last but not least. Are you aware of ICE? ICE means In Case of Emergency. Let me emphasize how important ICE is to you. When I had my accident two weeks ago not only was I alone but I was rendered unconscious as a result of the accident. Well, ICE saved the day. Emergency personnel are trained to look for ICE on cell phones or in a wallet. As luck would have it I was wearing a runners wallet, marked ICE, on my shoe with my emergency contacts and medical information in it. By using this information the emergency personnel were able to give me the best of care and contact my wife. If you don't have an ICE wallet you should put ICE on your cell phone so the emergency personnel can contact your family in the event you are not able to respond. ASDIP Cubby Winkel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From debbiemshelley at hotmail.com Tue Sep 27 20:23:11 2011 From: debbiemshelley at hotmail.com (Debbie shelley) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:23:11 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor wildlfe cruise 9-27 Message-ID: 1200 common dolphin 6 minke whales 2 blue sharks 1000+ humboldt squid 30 mola mola juvies Wow oh wow what a great day. We headed east and came across a few common dolphin and shortly after spotted some minke's. They gave us some great looks for minke's that is. Headed out to the east end of Santa Cruz when Captain Mat spotted the large humboldt squid. We were surround by 1000s of the wonderful creatures. They were feeding and jumping out of the water. Everyone on board was totally impressed. Great cruise along the coast of Santa Cruz and lots and lots of dolphins, bird feeding, and even a sea lion munching on a mola mola. Captain Mat had informed us earlier that mola mola's top predator are seal lions. On our way back we spotted a large blue shark just below the surface, another great find and even spotted another just a little further. All in all it was an other great day in paradise. Thanks to the great crew Eagle Eye Captain Mat, Dave and Brooke. Also on board was Brian and Lisa on PID and me Debbie Shelley. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cfrench1366 at aol.com Wed Sep 28 07:09:55 2011 From: cfrench1366 at aol.com (Catherine French) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:09:55 -0700 Subject: [CINC] L.A.Times: Santa Cruz Island wetland restoration underway Message-ID: <529DD9F8-BCD1-4C20-A715-98A0A140FC7A@aol.com> From the Los Angeles Times: Santa Cruz Island wetland restoration underway A major restoration project could bring back a long-degraded wetland to one of the remote islands off the Southern California coast. The full story can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/la-me-adv-island-wetland-20110928,0,4613793.story?track=latiphoneapp Get the Los Angeles Times iPhone app from iTunes: http://www.itunes.com/apps/latimes Calm seas, Catherine French Writer, naturalist, mentor 805.570.0432 To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. Sent from i love my iPad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caislandgirl at gmail.com Wed Sep 28 07:58:09 2011 From: caislandgirl at gmail.com (Sabine Faulhaber) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:58:09 -0700 Subject: [CINC] L.A.Times: Santa Cruz Island wetland restoration underway In-Reply-To: <529DD9F8-BCD1-4C20-A715-98A0A140FC7A@aol.com> References: <529DD9F8-BCD1-4C20-A715-98A0A140FC7A@aol.com> Message-ID: The Santa Barbara Independent has the story as well http://www.independent.com/news/2011/sep/27/starting-swamp/ Sabine On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Catherine French wrote: > From the Los Angeles Times: > > *Santa Cruz Island wetland restoration underway* > > A major restoration project could bring back a long-degraded wetland to one > of the remote islands off the Southern California coast. > > The full story can be viewed at: > > http://www.latimes.com/la-me-adv-island-wetland-20110928,0,4613793.story?track=latiphoneapp > > Get the Los Angeles Times iPhone app from iTunes: > http://www.itunes.com/apps/latimes > > > Calm seas, > > Catherine French > > Writer, naturalist, mentor > 805.570.0432 > To own is to have; to share with friends, is to enjoy. > Sent from i love my iPad > > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > http://www.rain.org/mailman/listinfo/channel_islands_naturalist_corps > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There was some confusion about the departure time, the trip will be from 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $125 per person; after a 20% discount that comes to an even $100 for CINC naturalists. Let the landing know you are with CINC when you sign up; 805-882-0088. We hope to see many of you on Saturday. Take care, Bernardo From kuzzi738 at gmail.com Wed Sep 28 10:36:36 2011 From: kuzzi738 at gmail.com (John Kuizenga) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:36:36 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX Cancellation Message-ID: CX ?Wildlife? trip cancelled today, 9/28 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Wed Sep 28 10:45:39 2011 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:45:39 -0700 Subject: [CINC] NEED CINC for Outreach This Saturday: Santa Barbara Message-ID: Thanks for all of your sign-ups for outreach next month! 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We are still > in need of a volunteer for the : > Washington School Eco Fair (Santa Barbara), October 1, Noon - 4 pm > This is a smaller scale event and the families are always eager to > learn about resouces in the community. > Thanks, > Shauna > _______________________________________________ > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps mailing list > Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org > From Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov Wed Sep 28 14:12:53 2011 From: Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov (Shauna.Bingham at noaa.gov) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:12:53 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor Express Whale Watch ADDED Sunday, 10/2/11 Message-ID: Please see VolunteerSpot, a Condor Express whale watch trip has been added this Sunday, October 2, 2011 from 10:00 am - 2:30 pm. There will be two regular spots and one PID. This is a cruise ship passenger charter and the loading will be different FYI. From kat at recycledgoods.com Thu Sep 29 08:33:28 2011 From: kat at recycledgoods.com (Kathyrn Wasden) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:33:28 -0700 Subject: [CINC] eagle finds prey near SB Zoo... Message-ID: <002d01cc7ebd$23336030$699a2090$@com> Peter Sharpe saves the day or at least the nesting flamingos http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0929-zoo-intruder-20110929,0,655332. story -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From deb4nb at aol.com Thu Sep 29 14:40:06 2011 From: deb4nb at aol.com (Debra Herring) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:40:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CINC] CX Kit News Message-ID: <8CE4D077CD8D59B-2364-ABD3@Webmail-d119.sysops.aol.com> Hi All, Quick notes & reminders: 1. The small lime green "sign in" book was taken out of the kit a couple of weeks ago. It was not the mandatory sign in book (which is up in the wheelhouse on the table) therefore taking up needed space. Please continue to sign in the mandatory binder. 2. Only a handful or so Park newspapers will fit in the kit, so if you run out during the trip you can refer passengers to Sea Landing, where they keep an ample supply. 3. Please do not leave kit items unattended. 4. If you have any questions, needs, missing items etc. for the CX kit contact me, and Lisa Anderson for the IPCO kits (volunteer kit monitors). 5. There is an extra supply of data/sighting sheets in the "Resources and Data Sheet" binder. Happy Fall, Debra H. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From debbiemshelley at hotmail.com Thu Sep 29 19:17:44 2011 From: debbiemshelley at hotmail.com (Debbie shelley) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:17:44 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Condor wildlife cruise 9-29 Message-ID: 30 common dolphin 300 humbolt squid 125 risso's dolphin Another great trip!! went out in thick fog and spotted a few dolphin. The people from england and holland were just amazed at how fun the dolphins were. We headed west to Santa Cruz Island and we spotted the humboldt squid. They were spurting big water fountains around the boat. even the few people who were sea sick were happy with this great sighing. No one would have imagined that we were about to see a very unique sight of 125 risso's dolphins about 1/2 mile off the coast of Santa Cruz Island. it was totally breathtaking. some of the passenger commented on just the serenity of hearing them come up for air. We watched them for about 30 minutes. There were lots of calf's in the pod also. We then entered Painted cave and there were about 10 kayak come out of the cave. the passenger's were very impressed with the cave. Another great day in paradise!!! Thanks to Captain Dave for all the great interpretive info and Dennis and Amanda for all there help with helping the passengers. Thank you Kathrin for the great info on the opening talk. Everyone was totally into the talk. 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Message-ID: <002501cc7f2b$19c405e0$4d4c11a0$@com> This came up as I was checking mail..(hopefully this isn't a repeat) http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/sep/29/rules-to-reduce-air-pollution-have-sa ved-whales/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dgillies8 at cox.net Thu Sep 29 22:11:55 2011 From: dgillies8 at cox.net (dgillies8 at cox.net) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:11:55 -0700 Subject: [CINC] Santa Cruz island trip 9/29/11 Message-ID: <37A5A650BB6C4BB0B3EE40AD6B15D0F2@OwnerPC> Today?s IPCO trip to Santa Cruz was interesting with beautiful sunny weather and a small but appreciate group of day visitors. My hike was with 8 attentive people from Korea, Ireland and Calif. There was plenty of time for relaxing and enjoying the beach. It was a very low tide in the late afternoon when I heard some teenage campers on the beach making a lot of noise. I went over to see what was happening and found that large Humboldt squid were beaching themselves and the kids were throwing them back in the water. After several tries most were saved. I did see a group of 6 large male sea lions going back and forth close to shore. I think they may have caused the beaching. On the way home we found about a dozen Risso?s dolphins doing some lunge feeding. It was a memorable trip. Don Gillies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sally.eagle at cox.net Fri Sep 30 08:42:57 2011 From: sally.eagle at cox.net (Sally Eagle) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:42:57 -0700 Subject: [CINC] CX Friday 9/30 trip cancelled Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: