Wildlife Notes:
- Many of the gull chicks and adult gulls were panting in the middle of the day, due to the high (for Race Rocks standards) heat reaching 21 °C. The low wind and clear sky helped crank the heat.
Facility work:
- Tidying the top of the lighthouse tower and sweeping the stairs
Vessels:
- Ecotourism: 16
- Private: 8
Weather:
- Sky: Clear
- Wind: variable, predominately from west 1 to 19 knots
- Sea: rippled
- Air temperature: low 11 °C, high 21 °C
- Seawater temperature at max flood: 10.7°C
Photos from today:
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- Gull chicks panting to cool off
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- Steller and California sea lions hauled out below the helicopter pad.
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- A silly or brave gull goes in for a closer look at a hauled out California sea lion.
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- In otherwise calm seas, the current at the daily max flood this afternoon can be seen as the water flows 4.6 knots (8.5 km/h) through the South Seal Rocks.
*All wildlife photos are taken at the furthest distance possible, and may be cropped to improve detail.