Had a nice visit from a veteran ecoguardian Guy Ouradou along with a pearson college alumni member for a quick visit to the island.
Ecological
Some time in the night the mother elephant seal left the island to feed and let her pup become independent and eventually make it’s own way to the water.
Surprisingly Bernard (father elephant seal) has still been very close and protective to the two pups that are now side by side.
Sky: cloudy in the morning then cleared up by afternoon
Water: mostly calm
Boats/Visitors
Saw a few ecotours go by today
Two workers from Environment Canada came by for a few hours to inspect the weather monitoring equipment on the top of the lighthouse.
Kyle came out to deliver fuel and brought a student from Pearson college to see the island.
Ecological
There are now three other male elephant seals hanging around.
The older elephant seal pup has been sleeping away from the elephant seal family (dominant male, female and weaner) for the last few days now and the other males are starting to become interested in it. I really hope they don’t attack it!
New batteries were installed for the main energy systems. The generator will only need to be run once a week for 2-4 hours rather than 2-4 hours a day! Huge decrease in carbon footprint.
Ecological
The sea lions and seals were enjoying the sun today
Lots of black turnstones running around the lawn throughout the day
An eagle flew right over me and my friend right when she arrived to say hi.
Not much boat activity today aside from the usual commercial freighters
Had some technicians come out to look at upgrading the internet routers for the island which is exciting. Lots of upgrades happening lately to the energy systems here which will greatly reduce the amount of fuel needed to burn everyday to keep things running out here.
Ecological
The pups continue to grow and get bigger by the day.
Lots of eagles and harbour seals on the south east rocks still.
