Weather

• Visibility: 15 miles for most of the day with the Washington coast as clear as I’ve seen it so far, until early evening when fog came in from the east covering downtown Victoria from view.
• Wind: Little to no breeze during the day with it picking up to 14-18 knots by 7pm.
• Sky: Mostly cloudy with some sun
• Water: calm throughout the day, a bit choppy at times

Boats/Visitors

• Boat traffic was fairly minimum today with the usual commercial vessels in the distance and one or two whale watching boats.
• No visitors today

Ecological

• There seems to be more stellar sea lion pups on the island, especially on the south rocks in the last few days, though I may just have not noticed them among the “piles” of bodies as they tend to lay all over each other.
• Still lots of Black Turnstones, Cormorants, Eagles, Canada Geese and Gulls around
• Only saw one of the male elephant seals around today

Other

• Chopped some bigger logs into kindling for the woodstove this afternoon and cleaned up a lot of rocks of varying sizes that have been falling from the paths and bank walls between the lighthouse and science house.
• Pretty chilly today, had frost on the ground and frozen puddles for the first time.