All camera and weather systems are up and running again; apologies for the interruption in service. The outage was caused by a major problem from one of our male elephant seals. Yesterday night, our friend Misery moved overtop of the waterline connected to the science house used for cleaning camera 5. The line broke off of the spigot and caused about 5000 litres of fresh water to drain, emptying the tank overnight. I’ve been running the desalinator continuously to make up the lost water. I have bypassed the hybrid energy system and am running the island straight off of the generators to preserve the batteries and to save fuel. Unfortunately, this method sometimes produces dirty power and can wreak havoc on the computer systems running here. Garry and I managed to restart the systems this morning and things seem to be running smoothly for the moment. ‘adam’, ’14:50:59 ,
Daily Archives: Saturday,July 3, 2010
Orca and whale watchers
Orca: ‘Several orcas -not sure on the numbers) passed by the north side and the south side of the Reserve this morning. As is typically the case, they were pursued by a flock of 10-15 whale watching boats. Many of these boats sped through the outskirts of the Reserve to reach the whales and then returned later to view other animals within the Reserve. At one point, at least 5 boats surrounded a Steller sea lion on the eastern point of West Race.’, ‘adam’, ’14:53:53 ,