Weather
- Visibility: 10 miles
- Wind: 15 knots NE
- Sky: Partly Cloudy, quite a bit of sunshine
- Water: Rippled, mostly calm.
Boats/Visitors
- We are expecting a delivery of fresh water from Guy and Greg at the college to pump into our tank today, as the desalinator is still broken.
- Fewer whale watching boats over the past couple of days.
- Yesterday morning Laura and her first year marine science classes visited for their final field exam.
Ecological
- A few eagles perching on the south islands, north rocks, and the webcam
- There is a pair of geese nesting beside our basement door that have been trying to lay eggs, but it looks like something (maybe the seagulls?) is getting the eggs even before we have a chance to addle them. We have been finding cracked open eggs on our doorstep.
- The seagulls are starting to establish nests and become more aggressive towards us when we go outside. We haven’t spotted any eggs yet.
- There are now two elephant seals moulting, but they are looking a bit better since it rained.
The young elephant seal from this spring is still here too.
From our kitchen window: One of two families of geese currently living on Race Rocks.
One of the elephant seals found a comfy spot to take a nap as researchers came and went with equipment on the jetty.