Trip Leader: Virginia Flaherty

Virginia is Central Coast Outdoors owner, 2003 to present, with her husband, John, and an outdoor guide since 1991. She currently runs kayak eco-tours on Morro Bay and enthusiastically shares her wealth of knowledge about life in and on the bay, including shorebirds, migrating waterfowl, seabirds and many others. Virginia also works at Pacific Wildlife Care, caring for sick, injured and orphaned seabirds, songbirds and raptors. Virginia is a member of PWC's educational team and does talks with PWC's educational ambassadors, which include a great horned owl, long-eared owl, red tailed hawk and American kestrel, throughout SLO County. You can learn more about Virginia and Central Coast Outdoors at www.centralcoastoutdoors.com.