Mostly cloudy skies created monocolor conditions with no distinction between the sky and the ocean. The ocean was calm and there was only a slight wind.
♦️♦️ AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA:
🔷 NO WHALES SEEN
🔷 75 harbor seals
🔷 approximately 170 brown pelicans flying north
🔷 3 black oystercatcher
🔷 1 bobcat
♦️♦️ AT SAUNDERS REEF:
🔷 2 northbound gray whales – traveling together
🔷 1 osprey
🔷 49 brown pelicans flying north
♦️♦️ AT GUALALA POINT:
🔷 1 northbound gray whale seen by Shari Goforth
♦️♦️ TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE =
🔵 312 northbound – includes 2 mother/calf pairs –
our second mother/calf pair was seen on Sunday, April 4 by Mel Smith who spotted them swimming past Goat Rock along the Point Arena- Stornetta Lands, heading towards the Lighthouse
🔴 382 southbound
🟢 6 foragers
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