Was quite busy this weekend but things have calmed down a bit now

Weather

• Visibility: 15 Miles
• Wind: 5-15 SE
• Sky: Clear
• Water: Flat

Boats/Visitors

• The couple who will be taking the summer shift came by today for a little orientation, ran them through some of the chores we do here and will get more training time when we switch mid May
• beautiful out the last couple days since the wind calmed down, there has been plenty of boats around

Maintenance

• The solar panels really need to be scrubbed, I will try get that done tomorrow morning before the sun comes up, they are very difficult to clean when the sun is beating down on them

Ecological

• 14 elephant seals, the pup is still here
• very few sea lions, around 100 of them, seems to be an even mix of stellar and californias
• about 12 geese around and 7 goslings so far
• a couple hundred pigeon guillemots around today
• about 6 oystercatchers, they will probably start nesting soon
• a little group of harlequins around along with about 200 gulls that are starting to build their nests as well
• there is at least 50 harbour seals on the outer rocks  and that’s about it for a rough census