lots of visitors

Pretty calm all day. Intermittent showers, moments of sun. 2 ft swell still running

Erik brought Maciek (our new volunteer) out this morning, he’ll stay until Friday to help out with two person projects.
Tharis came out for a visit for a few hours just to see the awesomeness of Race Rocks.
Students from the college and Catrin Brown came out for a lab on food webs, and Libby Mason’s brother (whose name escapes me right now) also came out with the students.

First day that I didn’t see any marine tour boats
Lots of commercial fishing boats heading back out to sea now that the bad weather has passed
Coast Guard was heading out this evening
Spotted a California sea lion with a line around its neck
Noticed a Glaucous winged gull with a broken wing

-Ran desalinator
-Cleaned tops of batteries and replaced cups; tidied battery room
-Chopped up log along jetty
-Reset Davis instruments computer. It was having issues since I installed the UPS yesterday.
-Posted missing seawater data to the log from February and August
-Posted branded sea lion photos to the log

end of storm

Mixed weather all day. Light winds. Small swell still running.

The sea lions have started to use the area South of the student house. There are very few on the flats to the North-East of the keepers house anymore.

Tour boats: 6
DND blasts: 3 between 1030 and 1100; 2 at 1145; 1 super loud bang at 1215

-Measured solar panels for potential replacements
-Got the weed eater running and trimmed the edge of the walkways
-Found a few more electric fence insulators and tidied up the fence wiring
-Installed Davis instrument UPS (backup battery)