Another day in paradise! I feel like I’m more of less settling into life on the rocks. Wake up, have coffee watching the sunrise in the tower, do a perimeter check on the fence, have breakfast, clean solar panels…and onwards. I of course have countless distractions to my tasks every day, for I can’t help but running to get my camera every time a whale splashes, or the sea lions get silly (which is often). The evenings end much like the mornings begin, but instead with a cup of tea at the top of the tower facing the other direction for the sunset show.

Wildlife Notes

Lots of feeding action today all around the islands. I watched as one humpback came surprisingly close to the jetty, with my eagle eye view from the tower I saw its entire body as it swiftly moved along in the shallows.

• 2 Humpbacks past West rocks
• At least 6 more Humpbacks spent good time on the N/ NE end feeding

Facility work

I took advantage of the beautiful day to do a major window cleaning session, which led me down the rabbit hole of attempting to scrub some algae off the siding of the house…to which I realized was a much bigger job in itself and would have to wait for another day. I postponed filling batteries as the new door to the energy building would be replaced tomorrow.

• Electric fence maintenance
• Cleaned solar panels
• Water sampled
• Washed all the windows of the Main house and Science house

Weather:

• Sky: Mostly sunny to partly cloudy later in the day
• Wind: SW 3-5kts
• Sea state: Very calm
• Air temp: 18C

Vessels

The usual Eco-tourism vessels, however I was pleased to hear one call out to a CCG vessel to slow down for whales in the area in which coast guard promptly did.

Sunset Gulls