Whales in the area today and new male elephant seal.

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  15-25 NE
  • Sky: cloudy for the most part, bit of sun came through
  • Water: a bit choppy today

Boats/Visitors

  • Had a couple boats cruise by

Ecological

  • same amount of sea lions
  • one large male elephant seal
  • a couple eagles
  • there were also maybe 3 humpbacks and about 4 orcas around

Notes

  • it does still look like there are quite a few sea lions around, will do the census tomorrow

Killer Whales

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  5-15 SE
  • Sky: cloudy but got a good amount of sun
  • Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

  • Had a few boats cruise by

Ecological

  • same amount of sea lions
  • one large male elephant seal
  • plenty of harbour seals
  • and I finally saw a pod of maybe 8 orcas today

Notes

  • nice day overall

November 26th

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  20-45 SW throughout the day
  • Sky: cloudy
  • Water: choppy today, I would say waves came up to a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • didn’t really see any passing boats today

Ecological

  • still quite a few sea lions around
  • and one big male elephant seal
  • I haven’t seen the harbour seal pup today

Notes

  • the wind is really picking now, in the 40’s tonight

Seal Pup

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  15-30 NE
  • Sky: cloudy
  • Water: a bit choppy today

Boats/Visitors

  • Had a couple boats cruise by, some divers

Ecological

  • There a seal pup by the jetty that I took a lot of photos of
  • a large male elephant seal showed up around 4pm, also by the jetty
  • still plenty of eagles around

Notes

  • looks like the wind is going to pick up again for a few days

November 24th

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  0-10 NE
  • Sky: overcast
  • Water: flat

Boats/Visitors

  • Had quite a few boats cruise by

Ecological

  • So many eagles, counted at least 16 all together

 

Census

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  15-30 SW throughout the day
  • Sky: cloudy for the most part, bit of sun came through
  • Water: a bit choppy today

Boats/Visitors

  • Had a couple boats cruise by

Ecological

  • slightly less sea lions
  • also saw, oystercatchers, harlequinns
  • a couple eagles

Notes

  • looks like the wind is going to pick up again tonight

Census

  • Stellar Sea Lions – 267
  • California Sea Lions – 142
  • Harbour Seals – 14
  • Elephant Seals – possibly one on the outer rocks, not sure
  • Gulls – 275
  • Cormorants – 321
  • Black Turnstones – 32
  • Geese – 16
  • Oystercatchers – 4
  • Harlequinn Ducks – 16
  • Eagles – 2

Weather

Weather
  • Visibility: 0 Miles in the morning 15 in the afternoon
  • Wind:  0-15 SW
  • Sky: cloudy for the most part, bit of sun came through
  • Water: a bit choppy today

Boats/Visitors

  • Had a few boats cruise by

Ecological

  • same amount of sea lions, no elephant seals yet

Notes

  • had a good amount of fog in the morning, went away in the afternoon

November 20th

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  ranged from 5-35 NW throughout the day
  • Sky: partly cloudy, got a good amount of sunlight
  • Water: went from flat to 2 metre waves to flat throughout the day

Boats/Visitors

  • Had a few boats cruise by and a couple visitors to install a new dryer

Ecological

  • same amount of sea lions, no elephant seals yet