Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode 63, which we are recording on Friday, May 30th, and we are sitting on Westcliff Drive in Santa Cruz in the 80-something degree heat in the car.

So warning now, the windows are cracked and you will hear some air from the cars around us

and there is a bit of a breeze outside.

But we had to take advantage of the beautiful afternoon and we weren't willing to suffocate

a hot car so we had to crack the windows.

It's really beautiful out.

We've seen here comes some pelicans right now.

We're facing the water and there is a huge flock of what we have identified as different types of seagulls and possibly cormorants out there diving.

There must be sardines.

Yeah, like a school of sardines going by.

It's a very concentrated flock of birds.

It's a huge flock of birds.

But very concentrated.

Yes, all diving and eating.

And they're kind of moving down the coast as whatever

that whatever they're feasting on is moving with the flow of the ocean. So hopefully we'll have

a dolphin or whale sighting for you as well. But we have not introduced ourselves. I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene. And I did want to apologize right off the bat for the audio in our last episode, the interview

with Wendy Bernard.

Charlene and I had both listened to it on our computers with our earbuds.

And both of us noticed a disparity in the volumes, but not that distinct.

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