Discovering The Farallones Marine Sanctuary

Our speaker, Peter Winch, is the Visitor Center Naturalist for the Farallones Marine Sanctuary and assists with running the visitor center and its educational program. He has a BS in Environmental Science from Plymouth University, England, and has a background as a scientist and as an educator. He has studied seabirds in Alaska, Hawaii, Baja Mexico and Oregon for US Fish and Wildlife and The Island Ecology Group, and worked as a naturalist for Oceanic Society Expeditions on Whale Watching Trips off California for five years. Peter will lead participants on a photographic tour of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary, starting from its least accessible places to the most accessible parts of this amazing ocean wilderness. The journey starts at The Farallon Islands where Peter worked as a volunteer in 1998, and features dramatic images of the islands and its plants and animals. It continues with images of marine animals taken from boats - whales, dolphins and seabirds from the nine years Peter has worked as a whale watch naturalist. It concludes with photographs from tidepools, a colorful, diverse and abundant ecosystem, that is right on our doorstep.

Optional pot luck dinner at 6:00.