It's a good idea in theory. If we post some photos after each visit to Inverness it will create a photo log of how things look at different times of year.

All this is dependent on actually taking photos and then downloading and posting them. We will try to do better in 2009.

In the interim, this is too good to let slide. This guy looked big -- 70 to 80 lbs maybe. We caught sight of him walking through one of the cow pastures between us and Abbot's Lagoon on our way back from a hike and bird watching.

Also observed but not photographed were sea lions in large groups (30 to 40) herding fish (we think). There were in a line, moving rapidly often surfing a swell, and arching out of the water as they swam like dolphins.