Race Rocks

I’m going to be honest, it smells so bad on the island. Race Rocks is an ecological reserve that is often visited by students at Pearson College. Project weeks, diving and other activities can be conducted at Race Rocks. The island is small, has one lighthouse, one house for the guardian hired by the college to live at and one other small house for visitors to stay in. You can probably walk around the whole island within a few minutes. The only obstacles would be the hundreds of sea lions lying around making noise, being lazy and smelly.

When I went to Race Rocks for my biology class I had counted over 400 sea lions! They are everywhere. Many are swimming, many are lying on the rocks and shores and many are just sitting around in the middle of the island. You can get within a couple of feet of a lazy sea lion if you can find one. Most of them tend to flop away once you start getting close.

Race Rocks is about 10-15 minutes by boat, however on my trip to the island we had to make a few detours because we could see Humpback whales! This doesn’t happen often, so even the biology teacher was excited.

Hopefully I will be able to go to the island again. I’m not in Marine Sciences so I don’t know how high the chances are to be able to go again but I will keep my fingers crossed.