Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 20-40 West throughout the day
- Sky: pretty clear
- Water: choppy, at least 1 metre waves
Boats/Visitors
- A few ecotours came by today
Ecological
- 12 elephant seals scattered around, mostly in the front of the house
Category Archives: Ecoguardians Log
Another Foggy Day
Weather
- Visibility: 0 Miles
- Wind: 25-30 SW
- Sky: Completely foggy from 1am until 7:30pm
- Water: choppy, not too big
Boats/Visitors
- A few ecotours came by today despite the fog
Ecological
- 12 elephant seals scattered around, mostly in the front of the house
Swiftsure Race Today
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 5-10 NW was a bit less in the middle of the day but picked up a bit again
- Sky: clear and sunny
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- A lot of ecotours today, along with countless boats sailing by and fishing
Ecological
- 12 elephant seals scattered around today, mostly around the jetty to cool off in the water
Other
- The swiftsure race started today and hundreds of sailboats went sailing by the lighthouse today
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- There were some kayakers as well
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- harbour seals
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- just a fraction of the boats today
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- sea lion and elephant seals cooling off at low tide
Sea Otter!
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-5 S
- Sky: clear and sunny
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- A lot of ecotours today, and a couple visitors on the island
Ecological
- 14 elephant seals scattered around today, mostly around the jetty to cool off in the water
- There was a sea otter in the kelp bed off the north side of the island, unfortunately I could not get close enough to get a decent picture
Other
- DND blasting continued today but just a bit this morning
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- They are taking pictures of the otter
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- Hard to see but there is a sea otter in this picture
Census Day, Thursday, May 25th
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-5 NW
- Sky: clear and sunny
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Many different boats around today
Ecological
- 14 elephant seals scattered around today, mostly around the jetty to cool off in the water
Other
- DND blasting continues
Census
- Stellar Sea Lions: 42
- California Sea Lions: 44
- Elephant Seals: 14
- Harbour Seals: 36
- Unspecified Gulls: 321
- Pigeon Guillemots: 120
- Cormorants: 23
- Canada Geese: 16
- Oystercatchers: 8
- Harlequinn Ducks: 5 males (that I could see)
Notes
- I have not seen any eagles today but I saw them yesterday and they have been hanging around so I am guessing they are around here somewhere
- There is another Elephant seal
- An increase in sea lions as well as gulls
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- Beautiful day today
Wednesday, May 24th
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: between 15-25 throughout the day
- Sky: partly cloudy
- Water: choppy, no more than a metre
Boats/Visitors
- A few ecotours came by today
Ecological
- 14 elephant seals on the island today
Other
- DND blasting today, the elephant seals don’t seem bothered by it but he sea lions really don’t like it
Tuesday, May 23rd
Weather
- Visibility: 10 Miles
- Wind: between 20-40 knots throughout the day
- Sky: few clouds
- Water: choppy, no more than a metre
Boats/Visitors
- Maybe one or two, too windy for many boats to be around
Ecological
- 14 elephant seals scattered around today
Monday, May 22nd
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: between 0-10 throughout the day, very light
- Sky: clear
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Quite a few boats around of all sorts fishing, sailing, ecotours and people just wanting to relax on the water
Ecological
- 14 elephant seals scattered around today
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- I feel like this one is new
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- So beautiful today
Sunday, May 21st
I lost connection to my wifi and phones on Sunday and got it back on Thursday so I will be updating the logs from Sunday May 21st to Thursday May 25th
Weather
- Visibility: Dense fog until noon, could not see much past the jetty
- Wind: 15-20 NW this morning increased a little bit through the day
- Sky: Dense fog
- Water: fairly calm
Boats/Visitors
- No boats came by in the morning that I could see but once the fog cleared up in the afternoon there were quite a few boats
Ecological
- 12 elephant seals scattered around today
Very Foggy
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles in the morning until about 1 this afternoon when there was a blanket of fog, could barely see the South Rocks
- Wind: 15-20 NW this morning increased a little bit through the day
- Sky: few clouds in the morning and heavy fog for some time this afternoon that came and went
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- very few boats around Race Rocks today, more further out
- Some of them looked to be fishing and there were some sailboats out there
Ecological
- 11 elephant seals scattered around today
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- Sea lions on South Rocks
