Category Archives: Marine Vessels

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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

Another Tagged Elephant Seal

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 W
  • Sky: Very Sunny
  • Water: Flat Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • quite a few fishing boats and ecotours out today

Ecological

  • The oldest pup was in the water again today, I got some photos of her on the rocks near the water
  • another tagged female elephant seal showed up today could only make out the last 3 digits on the tag which were 019

Census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SE
  • Sky: Sunny
  • Water: Some waves this morning but calm later in the day

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, ecotours and fishing

Ecological

  • An adult female elephant seal showed up today and the oldest pup was relaxing on the jetty with the sea lions
  • also the juvenile male had blood on him, there may have been a couple small puncture wounds but nothing serious
  • it was a beautiful afternoon, a bit difficult counting with all the movement

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 75
  • california sea lions – 112
  • harbour seals – 28
  • elephant seals – 2 male, 4 female
  • gulls – 324
  • cormorants – 35
  • pigeon guillemots – 37 (there were way more yesterday)
  • black turnstones – 18
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 11
  • fox sparrows – 2
  • geese – 12

Tagged female elephant seal

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-25 NW
  • Sky: Mostly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-2 metres in the morning, 0 in the evening

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today
  • had a couple visitors along with the two alumni that spent the night

Ecological

  • Both pups were by the jetty today, the older pup went in but the younger stayed close to the new female who is also by the jetty
  • the new female appears to be young still and she is tagged, there was mud on the tag so I’m not quite sure what the number was it was a green tag C-8?7

Tuesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 SE
  • Sky: Mostly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today
  • Have a couple visitors on the island overnight and the guys working on the project by the student house came by today and finished up

Ecological

  • The elephants had some movement today, the juvenile male was chasing one of the pups until the big guy chased him off
  • plenty of pigeon guillemots around today

Monday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-25 NE
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 0-1 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today

Ecological

  • The elephants haven’t moved around too much, the sea lions were in and out of the water because it did get pretty sunny this afternoon and I did see quite a few pigeon guillemots around today

Another Beautiful Day

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SE
  • Sky: Very Sunny
  • Water: A bit choppy in the morning, flat in the afternoon

Boats/Visitors

  • quite a few boats out there today

Ecological

  • The elephants didn’t move much today, the sea lions were playing around the water though

Other

  • Ran the desalinator quite a bit today only had to run the generator for part of it so I feel like the solar power did  help

Saturday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 5-15 NE
  • Sky: Very Sunny
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • Saw quite a few boats today, tour boats, fishing boats and sailboats

Ecological

  • Seems like the seals and sea lions spent most of the day either lazing in the sun or cooling off in the water, the gulls seem to be extra rowdy today, not sure why

Other

  • the batteries don’t seem to be taking in enough solar power, I find it odd that I still have to run the generator today even though its been very sunny for the past few days

Census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-25 SW this morning, down to 5-15 SW this afternoon
  • Sky: Very Sunny
  • Water: Waves about a metre this morning, to flat in the afternoon

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, saw some tour boats, fishing boats and sailboats

Ecological

  • Quite a few of the sea lions were in the water today, with their fins up, soaking in the sunlight

Census

  • Stellar Sea Lions – 35
  • California Sea Lions – 38
  • Harbour Seals – 27
  • Elephant Seals – 2 females and 3 males
  • Gulls – 213
  • Cormorants – 24
  • Eagles – 5
  • Harlquin Ducks – 14
  • Black Turnstones – 18
  • Black Oyster Catchers – 8
  • Geese – 12
  • Fox Sparrows – 2