Weather: 

• Sky: Weather is all over the place, blowing and raining one minute, sunny the next
• Visibility: 10-15+ miles
• Wind: 5-20 knots NE
• Water: some chop coming and going

Boats/Visitors: 

• • despite it being wet and cold there were still a few tour boats cruising around
  • Guy dropped off Laura and her marine scientists for CAS week so they will be staying in the student house

Ecological

• So many sea lions, here is an updated census
• Census
  • Sea Lions – 827 (247 Steller and 580 California)
  • Harbour Seals – 22
  • Gulls – 385
  • Cormorants – 140
  • Fox Sparrows – 10ish, harder to count these guys
  • Canada Geese – 22
  • Black Turnstones – 50
  • Eagles – 2
  • Great Blue Heron – 1
  • possibly 1 sea otter, bit hard to see from this distance
• Also, still spotting 1 or two humpbacks each day