Wednesday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-25 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Some waves throughout the day 0-1 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today, had some visitors on the island today

Ecological

  • the past few days the two pups have been inseperable, they were playing together in the water this morning and are sleeping by the flag pole now, strange they havent seem to really connected with each other until the past few days

 

Tuesday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-30 SW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Some waves 0-1 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, ecotours and fishing

Ecological

  • The pup were following each other for a bit this morning then went back to what seems to be their favourite spots
  • Not much other than that happening, its been very windy today

 

Sunday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SE
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Some waves 0-1 metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today

Ecological

  • the youngest pup went in the water today, photo included below
  • another juvenile female elephant seal showed up, untagged

Friday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-15 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-3 metres today

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, ecotours

Ecological

  • just the two female pups on island today

Notes

  • went off island for a couple hours today, ran into town for a short visit
  • looks like low winds this weekend, maybe a few short tours of the island next week

 

Tagged elephant seal

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Flat

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, no visitors

Ecological

  • One of the pups is now by the tank shed and the other one is by the compost bin, still no male elephant seals around
  • there is another tagged female now, a mature one the tag is pretty worn out, but its an orange tag that reads T 563

Tuesday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 SW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 0-1 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today along with having a couple tours today from the college

Ecological

  • haven’t seen the males around, only 3 elephant seals on the island today, both the pups along with one tagged female elephant seal, tag is C-887

0 SW

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SW was 0 this morning, came up in the afternoon
  • Sky: Very Sunny
  • Water: Flat Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • quite a few boats out there
  • also quite a few visitors coming to take a quick tour of race rocks

Ecological

  • The males both seem to have gone off today, I haven’t seen them, I’ve only seen the pups along with the two juvenile tagged females