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- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: It was Blowing 23 NW this morning but is now 5-10 NE
- Sky: Some clouds throughout the day with a bit of sunshine coming through
- Water: choppy this morning, calmed down in late afternoon
Boats/Visitors
- Had some ecotours cruise by today
Ecological
- sea lions are still in the way by the desalinator room
Notes
- Ran the generator and desalinator today for a few hours, and the solar panels are nice clean, brought in a decent amount of solar energy today
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-15 SE
- Sky: a little cloudy but mostly clear throughout the day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had Kyle deliver some fuel today and there were plenty of ecotours cruising by
Ecological
- the usual sea lions and elephant seals and planty of humpbacks around
Notes
- the sea lions seem to be leaving more everyday
- Visibility: 0 Miles in the morning 15 the rest of the day
- Wind: 0-10 SE
- Sky: Foggy this morning, mostly clear the rest of the day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had quite a few ecotours cruise around today
Ecological
- 2 elephant seals spotted today and 2 eagles on the outer rocks
Notes
- Ran the desalinator and generator today, the freshwater tank is almost full
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-5 SE
- Sky: clear all day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had quite a few ecotours drive by
Ecological
- plenty of sea lions still
Notes
- The weather has been really nice today, good for solar input
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 10-15 NE
- Sky: pretty cloudy most of the day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had some ecotours drive by
Ecological
- so many sea lions
- 5 elephant seals scattered around
- a gull with a broken wing
- and some california gulls around
- also saw the eagle again today
Notes
- go to run the desalinator for awhile today, its been difficult to get to with all the sea lions around
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-10 NE
- Sky: Overcast
- Water: calm, sort of, there was a bit of a swell out there
Boats/Visitors
- Kyle dropped off a food order and helped with some facility work other than that there were the usual ecotours
Ecological
- More sea lions than last week
- Same 5 elephant seals
- a lot of birds, gulls, turnstones, oystercatchers, geese, cormorants and an eagle
- Still not sure if the sea otter is out there, he is very hard to see from here
Notes
- DnD was blasting today
- The new generator is working great, just need more fuel
Census
- California Sea Lions – 512
- Stellar Sea Lions – 141
- Unspecified Gulls – 620
- Cormorants – 228
- Black Turnstones – 26
- Oystercatchers – 22
- Geese – 16
- Eagle – 1
- Harbour Seals – 30
- Elephant Seals – 5
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-15 NE
- Sky: overcast all day
- Water: flat but the current was moving
Boats/Visitors
- Ecotours and fishing boats coming by today
Ecological
- plenty of sea lions around not sure if the numbers have peaked yet
- saw humpbacks again out the kitchen window, they’ve been around for awhile
Notes
- The water sample the last couple days has shown a temperature of 9 degrees which is the lowest I’ve seen it in awhile
- The generator is working nicely
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-10 W
- Sky: cloudy throughout the day and a but of a drizzle this morning
- Water: calm, but the current was running pretty good
Boats/Visitors
- The new generator was set up today so we had a few people to come in and set that up which is great
Ecological
- even more sea lions this time, of both stellars and californias
- also 2 more elephant seal showed up this morning, both female
Notes
- tried to set up the electric fence again by the generator room but the sea lions tear back it down in minutes
- Saw the sea lions today that was darted a couple weeks ago and he is still healing (pictures in gallery)
- And the sea lion that currently has a band around its neck is still around
- There was a stellar that I thought might have something around his neck but it was just a gash, possibly from other sea lion?
Census
- Stellar Sea Lions – 62
- California Sea Lions – 456
- Elephant Seals – 5 (all female)
- Harbour Seals – 128
- Gulls (unspecified) – 524
- Cormorants – 367
- Black turnstones – 32
- Sparrows – 43
- Oyster Catchers – 6
- Sea Otter ( I can’t sea it very well but I’m sure it was around ) – 1
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 20-30 W
- Sky: cloudy throughout the day
- Water: a bit choppy, no more than a metre
Boats/Visitors
- Some ecotours braved the winds and came by
Ecological
- plenty of sea lions around they are coming up more to the middle island, which can be a problem, the elephant seals are up here too
Notes
- Ran the generator for a few hours today, had a little power outage last night and can’t have that happen again
- Everything else is going alright here, hopefully have the new generator up and running next week
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 10-15 SW
- Sky: cloudy this morning had a bit of fog then cleared up in the afternoon
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had a few ecotours and personal vessels cruise by today
Ecological
- plenty of stubborn sea lions along with one female elephant seal mixed in with them
Notes
- It was nice to see an elephant seal around, I walked around taking a few pictures today
- The sea lions were very stubborn today, I couldn’t fix the fence by the student house because they would charge me whenever I got close
