Author Archives: Laas Parnell

Wednesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-25 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy and Clarence came by for a fuel delivery, I needed to top up my big tank

Ecological

  • about 11 elephant seals today, 10 female, one young male
  • the elephants are blocking a goose off from its nest again, they seem to like the spot

So Much Fog

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Weather

  • Visibility: 0-15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-25 SW
  • Sky: From dense fog to sunshine throughout the day
  • Water: A bit wavy, under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • the middle of the day was nice so there were quite a few boats out
  • Guy stopped by today to get the big fuel tank

Ecological

  • Total of 9 female elephants and one young male
  • the geese I think are done laying eggs, but I’m not totally sure
  • it also looks like their might be some oyster catcher nests around, need to take a closer look

Other

  • the fog was pretty dense my fog horn was going off from 10pm last night to 7am this morning and again around 8-9 or 10am

 

Elephants vs Geese

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • as well as some sailboats and fishing boats

Ecological

  • a couple of the female elephants were blocking off a goose from her nest and the goose was pretty upset but the elephant seals could not be bothered and stayed napping there for a while

 

Saturday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-15 SW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today alone with a bunch of sailboats and fishing boats in this beautiful weather
  • also a few divers around the island

Ecological

  • about 9 female elephants and one young male, they were all in and out of the water today

 

Friday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-25 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy came by today with a few others

Ecological

  • about 10 elephants all together, most female, one is a young male that is sticking around
  • I think the geese are done nesting now, I hope they are
  • The gulls are starting to build their nests but I don’t expect them to really start nesting for another few weeks

Census and Fog

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Weather

  • Visibility: 0-15 Miles, fog a few times throughout the day
  • Wind: 15-35 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today

Ecological

  • there were quite a few californias on the jetty
  • there is one young male in the about 9 elephant seals, photos included

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 38
  • california sea lions – 25
  • harbour seals – 32
  • elephant seals – 9 female 1 male
  • gulls – 150
  • cormorants – 28
  • pigeon guillemots – 50
  • black turnstones – 18
  • harlequinn ducks – 0
  • oyster catchers – 14
  • fox sparrows – 8
  • geese – 16

Wednesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy, brought by a group of Lauras marine science students to do a transect study at low tide today

Ecological

  • 9 female elephants, one of them I’m still not sure if its the pup or not and one more elephant that I am now sure is a young male

 

Tuesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • many ecotours driving by today
  • no visitors today but I think guy is coming by tomorrow to help me fuel up the generator

Ecological

  • it looked like the sea otter was in the kelp bed again today, a bit hard to tell from here
  • one of the younger female elephant seals almost looks like one of the babies because of the colouring, but I’m not sure because she looks a bit big to be only 3 months old
  • also I think there is a young male on island, the nose looks a little protruded but not enough to be sure, it might just be a large female