Category Archives: Facility work

Census

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Weather

  • Visibility:15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-15 SE
  • Sky: Cloudy
  • Water: Choppy under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • Kyle and Mike came by today to finish setting up the new inverter, next week they set up the new battery bank

Ecological

  • noticed another large male elephant seal out on middle rock, he’s been there for a little while now but I don’t see any other elephant seals out there

Census

  • Stellar Sea Lions – 167
  • California Sea Lions – 94
  • Harbour Seals – 61
  • Elephant Seals – 5 males, 1 female and 1 pup
  • Cormorants – 84
  • Gulls – 260
  • Eagles – 16
  • Black Turnstones – 27
  • Black Oystercatchers – 12
  • Pigeon Guillemots – 12
  • Harlequinn Ducks- 14

January 25th, 2018

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Weather

  • Visibility:15 Miles
  • Wind: 5-15 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves about 1 metre

Boats/Visitors

  • Kyle came by with electricians from Power to the People to set up the new inverters, next week they working on the new battery bank

Ecological

  • the elephant seals are all doing well
  • as are the sea lion
  • and the pigeon guillemots are back, will update the census with photos tomorrow

 

Beautiful Day

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Weather

  • Visibility:15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SE
  • Sky: Some clouds, mostly sunny
  • Water: Flat calm for the most part

Boats/Visitors

  • Kyle, Jeff and Jack came by to deliver more batteries and help get that big log off the jetty
  • a couple ecotours and fishing boats went by

Ecological

  • the elephant seals are all doing well
  • as are the sea lions

Notes

  • Having some problems uploading the photos, will try fix it tomorrow

New Batteries

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Weather

  • Visibility:15 Miles
  • Wind: 5-15 SW
  • Sky: Partly cloudy, a bit of sun
  • Water: Large waves today1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a couple ecotours went by today
  • also Kyle, Jeff and Jake brought some new batteries for the battery bank that keeps this island powered, had to start up the crane and maneuver around a stubborn elephant seal to get the batteries where they needed to be

Ecological

  • The pup is doing well and so are all the other elephant seals
  • will update the census with photos tomorrow

Getting Colder

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Weather

  • 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

October 31st

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Weather

  • 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

Fog and Sun

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Weather

  • 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

October 23rd

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Weather

  • 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

Census Day

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Weather

  • 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