Weather

• Visibility: 15 miles
• Wind: 10-15 knts W
• Sky: Clear
• Water: Ripply

Boats/Visitors/Sightings

• Lots of ecotour boats between 12 and 1 pm, and a few private boats as well, making race passage quite crowded

Mammal Notes

• Some steller sea lions have arrived on the northwestern rocks! It’s hard to get an accurate count from this distance, but I estimate 12-15 including one really big one (a webcam viewer informed me that the big bull is branded “76Y”). Photographed below.
• I got a closer look at the injured californian sea lion that was hanging out near the guest house earlier, and it definitely has an injury on its hind flipper. I saw it try to get into the water yesterday and it was pretty much dragging itself.
• The injured female seal has nestled itself by the boat shed. I don’t see any further injuries on it.

Census

• Elephant Seals
  • Male = 4
  • Female = 1
• Sea Lions
  • California = 2
  • Steller = 15
• Seagulls = 480 adults (a big part of them remain on the smaller rock islands during low tide), ~100 babies (hard to estimate)
• Pigeon Guillemot = 85
• Eagles = 2
• Oystercatchers = 12 adults
• Harbour Seals = 25 adults, 2 babies
• Geese = 0
• Black turnstone = 55