IN THIS ISSUE

Untangling the Future

Dead Man's Drop

Nationally Recognized Volunteer

Endangered Spotlight: Green Turtle

 

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Whale Watching Trips

Sunday, July 20th

Saturday, August 23rd

Saturday, September 13th

 

 

Saturday, June 28 Creature Feature "Seaweed!" Join Visitor Center naturalist at 11.00am for a 45 minute family-orientated program looking at Seaweed. Includes a short beach walk.

Please RSVP to pwinch@farallones.org or call Peter Winch at 415.561.6625

 

Looking for the perfect wedding gift for your ocean-loving friends?

How about a whale watch trip for two to the Farallon Islands?

Contact Adrian Skaj at 415.561.6625 x300 or askaj@farallons.org.

 

Summer Camp registration Session B is still open!

 

Have you had an interesting experience in the Sanctuary?

Tell us your story in 400-600 words. Send it to the editor at smarti@farallones.org.

 

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Untangling the Future

In mid-May, boaters off Moss Landing in Monterey Bay spotted a young humpback whale entangled in commercial fishing gear. It was the second such sighting this spring; another humpback had been seen entangled in gear in April. While tour boats stood by to mark the humpback calf’s position, a trained disentanglement crew from NOAA arrived.

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Dead Man's Drop

It all starts innocuously enough. I receive a phone call from Mo at the California Academy of Sciences, who received a call from Sarah, the lead biologist for the National Park Service out in Point Reyes. Sarah reported a dead Steller sea lion at the south end of South Beach, below the Point Reyes Lighthouse. She suspects the animal has been shot.

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Beach Watch Volunteer Nationally Recognized

At a June 3rd ceremony in Washington, DC, Beach Watch volunteer Mary Cantini was named Volunteer of the Year by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation for her efforts during the Cosco Busan oil spill.

Mary was invaluable to the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary’s response to the spill that devastated wildlife and fouled beaches in November 2007.  Starting the day after the spill, she conducted daily dawn surveys at China Beach in San Francisco, one of the beaches most affected by the disastrous oil spill.

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Endangered Spotlight: Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Although they spend most of their lives in tropical and sub-tropical waters, green turtles are found all across the world.  In the Pacific, they travel as far north as Alaska and as far south as Chile and New Zealand.  

Unlike most sea turtles, which spend most of their adult lives in the ocean, Pacific green turtles are known to crawl onto secluded beaches during the day to sunbathe.

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Photo Credits: Green Turtle: Caroline Rogers, NOAA. Entangled whale: NOAA. Sea lion skull: ORCAMM