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Daily JournalMatthew Halton School
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 The first adventure (of many for the day) began at the breeding grounds of the Baja California sea lions.  It was really cool to get close to the sea lions they weren't afraid of us! |
 Females hanging out.  Friends hanging out.  A couple of adult males taking in the sun and salt. |
 A pair of Blue-footed Booby birds.  A Great Blue Heron hidden it it's nest.  We were followed on our return to the ship. |
 Our next adventure took us to the Island of Isla San Francisco.  We hiked over the burma across the dessert brush to ... |
 ... the salt pans mined by the fishermen of Isla Pardito.  Lauren pokes around in the brine and sea salt. |
 A Zebra Tailed lizard looks on.  Cactus Alley - Old Man's Beard Cactus.  Tasting the new bud of a Chain Link Cholla... hope it's not poisonous. I looked up my books, nuts!!!! |
 A flowering Prickly Pear Cactus. Cactus originated in the Americas and can be found in many parts of Canada to include Alberta.  A dried up Trigger fish. Notice the trigger (thus the name which are actually two dorsal spines in front of the dorsal fin) is used for protection against predators.  Jarret holds a sea cucumber in his hand.
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 An assortment of sponges live under this rock.  Lane holds a Brittlestar as it slithers along his palm.  A Sally Lightfoot crab holding thousands of eggs in it's breast plate (also called abdomen or abdominal plate). |
 Naomi holds an Alexander sea urchin.  Sponge, flatworm and starfish. (Seastar, if you have learned about starfish 20 years or earlier)  Shelley holds a Daisy Brittlestar.  The day ended as the sun started to set and the shrimp fishermen headed out to sea to fish through the night ... interesting!  The nightlight attracted a large school of California Halfbeaks.  A closer look. The nightlight ended the activities for the day. |
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Today we started our day at Lela’s beach at 8:00 am. We
headed out a couple hours later to see the sea lion colony at Los Isolotes.
It was pretty amazing to see the males , females and the pups. They didn't
even get scared off. They were quite playful. A couple of them followed us
in the pangas jumping out of the water ever so often. |
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