Sea Lion Corpse Removal

Well well well, the tool bar on this blog post creator has disappeared. No more bullet points or photos. Maybe it’s just a Hallowe’en prank?

The weather this morning was overcast, with calm seas, a gentle breeze of 5-10 knots East, and a visibility of more than 15 miles. Later on the day was marked with periodic showers and winds gusting up to 30 knots West.

The sea lions continue to do their thing, clambering all over the rocky edges of the island, and generally making a nuisance of themselves around the jetty. They keep ramming into the finicky sliding door to the boathouse. There were five elephant seals on Great Race today.

Kyle and Guy came out in the afternoon to drop off some food supplies and help with the removal of the dead California sea lion. What an appropriate task for Hallowe’en. We hooked him up to a rope on the end of the derrick, and hauled him out to sea. Maybe I should have kept the skull for decoration tonight.

Only a couple of eco-tours today.

Well it’s fully dark outside now. I expect I’ll have my first trick or treaters any moment now. I hope they don’t mind bird poop instead of candy; it’s all I have in abundance out here!

Seawater Data, October 2016

Station Race Rocks Lightstation
Month: October Year: 2016
Observer Lester B. Pearson College   of the Pacific
Date Time YSI Salinity YSI Temp °C
1 14:25 31.9 10.4
2 15:45 32.0 10.5
3 15:40 31.4 10.4
4 15:52 31.6 10.8
5 16:07 31.4 11.1
6 16:04 31.6 10.7
7 15:50 31.8 10.6
8 11:56 31.8 10.2
9 12:20 31.9 10.6
10 12:35 31.8 10.6
11 12:36 31.6 10.6
12 12:36 31.8 10.5
13 13:15 31.7 10.5
14 13:17 32.1 9.9
15 N/A TOO STORMY
16 14:15 31.7 10.6
17 14:47 32.2 10.0
18 15:20 32.1 10.5
19 15:51 31.7 9.9
20 16:18 32.2 10.1
21 16:30 32.1 10.1
22 11:07 32.3 10.0
23 11:35 32.2 10.2
24 11:55 32.0 10.3
25 12:07 32.0 10.5
26 12:20 32.0 10.1
27 12:39 32.1 10.2
28 13:07 31.9 10.5
29 13:25 31.7 10.6
30 14:00 31.8 10.4
31 13:50 31.7 10.6
Submitted to: Inst. Ocean Science, P.O. Box 6000, Sidney, B.C. V8L 4B2
Peter Chandler   Peter.Chandler@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Recorded by Race Rocks Ecological Reserve Guardian on behalf of Lester B. Pearson College