Loaded, Blasted, Tilted, Misery

Yesterday morning Erik came out on Second Nature with Julien,
Garry, and Jake.  He took off a pretty full load of wood scraps from a reno of the crane deck, garbage,  4 monitors, propane tanks, old composting toilet, etc.  DND blasting occurred at 11:11, 11:14, 11:35 (twice), and 11:36.   This morning around 4 am I heard a male elephant seal, presumably Misery, who has been back on the island all day.  I worked with Jake on installing the first solar PV tilt kit on the roof of the engine room.  The kit is apparently rated to withstand 125 mph winds.  It should provide greater solar exposure and accumulate less gull excrement thereby requiring less desalinated water to clean.

animal census

From the remote camera 1 the following were recorded:
Elephant seal, (Misery) main island : Misery1
Sea lions :
North Rock:10 ( probably northerns)
Middle rocks: 8 northerns
Middle-east rock:1 California
The attached images were the California and Thayers  gulls on the left, the east side: and on the right, gull censusthe south west corner.