Sky: Blanket of fog the last 22 hours, it is finally gone
Water: Calm
Boats/Visitors
A few ecotours braved the limited visibility today
I have a group of 7 students along with the Marine Science teacher Laura here for their CAS/Project week, in my year we called it project, now they call it CAS
Maintenance
Fence maintenance
The students helped me pick up all the garbage that had been washed up or fell off the buildings in the wind or fence pieces, the island is litter free
Ecological
Nothing unusual, no elephant seals, roughly the same amount of sea lions and no interesting birds lately
Refulled the generator but the fence hasnt needed any fixing lately and I’m being more careful with the water until we get more rain so I haven’t been pressure washing as much lately
Ecological
An elephant seal is here, nice to see one around, not sure when more will be showing up
Two sea lions with garbage on their neck, will report it and hopefully see if we can get someone out here to take the garbage off of them soon
Still quite a few humpbacks around counted about 6 today
haven’t seen the sea lion pups today but I’m sure they are around
There was a boreal owl that made an appearance last night but I wasn’t fast enough to get a photo of it and I haven’t seen it again but hopefully it makes another appearance
Guy came by with a little tour group this morning and then again in the afternoon with a group of students that will be spending their CAS week here
Maintenance
Fence maintenance, some pressure washing
Ecological
Counted at least 8 humpbacks throughout the day
there is a big dead stellar on the south west part of the island, I don’t usually go down there so I havent seen it until now
There are also about a dozen oyster catchers near the generator room
The sea lion pup is back and i got some great photos of it, even got some shots of it nursing which is very unusual to have such a young pup on the island
Laura’s marine science came by yesterday to see all the different species we have on the island and off the island we were lucky to see quite a few humpbacks around
Maintenance
Very minimal fence repairs which is a nice surprise, the sea lions are starting to avoid it more
Some pressure washing around the guest house, should be getting students for overnight trips soon
Ecological
I counted about 8 different humpbacks around yesterday, also saw about 4 today
Not a lot of boat traffic today but there were still a few ecotours braving the weather
Maintenance
Fence maintenance, and running the generator because I didn’t get a lot of solar today
Ecological
There are a few sea lion pups around, still no elephant seals
Not as many sea lions around today, going to do the census tomorrow to hopefully get higher numbers, because there have been a lot of sea lions around lately just not today
