Weather
Wind :went down around 10:00AM to 13knots
Sky: Nice and sunny and cold day
Census
Gulls:136
Cormorants:60
Elephant Seals:2 (1 female in the evening + the boss)
Sea lions:65
Harbour seals:34
Geese:4
Harlequin Ducks:14
Black turn Stones:10
Raven:2
Eagles :4
Maintenance
Camera 5 cleaned,battery in the crane house put in charge,desalinator and generator on
Boats
1whale Watcher vessel
Weather
Wind:North East
Speed:17KM\H
Sea:Choppy
Visibility:over 20 Miles
Maintenance
Chopped wood and stacked
200l of oil put in the yellow tank
Water cistern shed door pull out by wind: has been put back. Hinges will be changed
Ecological:
7 eagles on Turbine
Weather
Wind:southern 12km/h
Sea:choppy to calm
visibility:13 miles
Sky:clear to cloudy
Maintenance
get organized and look around what needs to be done
Weather: wind 5 knots NE. Rain.
Ecological: 1 orca near the reserve.
Maintenance:
Weather: Wind shifted to westerly, 30-35 knots in the morning.
Maintenance:
Weather
Ecological
Maintenance
Boats
Weather
Fall to stay…I said that a few days ago so it may be an earlier indian Summer! The sea this end of week was flat like never before with no wind . An exception for Saturday which was beautiful with a gust to 30 knots at the end of the afternoon. for Friday a summary:Wind 6 knots at 7:00AM,Visibility beyond 20 miles,South wind,Temperature: 10 deg.celsius, Barometric pressure:102.7KPA clear to cloudy and foggy for a while from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM .For Saturday: 15 knots in the morning ,West wind,calm ,Visibility :30 miles Pressure:102.7KPA, Wind was expected :30 knots in the afternoon and we got it from 7:00 to 8:00PM with a gust at 34 knots.Sunday a mirror the whole day and sunny and clear.
Ecological
The sea lions are everywhere on the rocks and now we can see more and more beautiful and some huge Steelers.We even saw an entangled Californian : 1rst one this year : very sad!.Geese are back between 5 and 13 depending and some Pelagic Cormorants too. Gulls with young ones are almost all gone .
Census
Sea Lions:550 to 600(with the swimming ones)
Gulls : 420
Oystercatchers:2
Geese: 13 seen
Eagles :0
Pigeon-guillemots: 0
Elephant-Seals:2 seen this week on Main
Black Turnstones: 40
River Otters:1(seen this week)
Pelagic Cormorants :20( seen this week)
Eagles:0
Maintenance
Guy and Kyle finished installing the Seawater pump . Some hoses were still missing and now it works well and easy.
We had an interesting experience coming back with the water bucket for the daily sample. When we went we had to make jump around 40 sea lions on the jetty .They all went but on our way back ,a pretty big one managed to come back and didn’t want to go or move and was aggressive . So we had to wait for a few minutes and finally we throw the bucket and the water and at that point he went! So now we have found the trick : A broom If you have a broom they are afraid so we take a broom with us,even when we go ashore for when we come back .
Other
Usual plane and watching boats …many fishing vessels closed to the entrance of Pedder Bay and Sooke
Weather
For this beginning of the month we have mainly calm days but the temperature of water and air dropped and the sky is cloudy grey with rain almost everyday.We already can see the effect of this soft water on main Rock: flowers,greener moss and rocks not so white.Fall is here to stay. Foggy night on the 6th: fog horn honked + sea lions shouting= Noisy place !
Ecological
With this cooler days we saw some species coming back:Around 20 pelagic cormorants on Turbine Rock and 2 on main.and 2 Elephant Seals has spent some time on Main (one older female and one juvenile). It is a challenge and a lot of fun at the same time to do the water sampling : so many sea lions on the jetty!. We saw a river otter 2 days ago and 11 geese yesterday
Maintenance
A new sea water pump has been installed in the derrick house by Kyle and Guy with 4 new hoses and a 5th one is needed to reach the guesthouse.Kyle brought back the empty gazoil barrels and brought them back full.The desalinator has been working the 2 last days and the tank is now full.. End of the month report done and sent .
DND
A few blasts yesterday and Today and a few ones pretty strong.
Other
1 plane yesterday and Today above and one helicopter(coast guards)
Weather
Very calm days almost the whole week:with a flat sea ,mild wind ,sky with sun and some clouds. The temperature dropped to 13 celsius in the morning and definitively Fall is coming with the first rains. To 5:45 AM it’s pretty dark so now we do the contact with Pedder Bay around 6:00AM.
Maintenance
We sent the end of the month report to Kyle and like usual the sea waters datas recorded in August. On Friday the electrician came back: he changed a box between the Solar panels and the batteries and calibrated the inverters. We had to struggle a little bit in the evening to get the phone and internet back.We got some new fire pump hoses. Also we took some samples of our soft water and it has been sent to a lab to be sure everything is fine.
Ecological
More and more Seal lions to welcome us on the jetty when we are back to the rocks.They are really everywhere and managed to destroy the line closed to the students house for the first time. The most interesting fact at this end of the week is the large number of Seagulls in our waters all busy fishing. North Rock is all white and we actually had a count of 1265 birds on the 1st it is even more crowded on the 3rd.
Weather
On this beginning of the week we had a calm weather,light wind and clear days with a pretty good visibility.most of the time. Air and water temperature are going down to 15 degrees on Thursday and the barometric pressure is moving down a little ,now around 101.5 .We got some very welcome rain.
Ecological
Rain cleaned the rocks a little and the marigold came back nicely. It’s still a smelling place but a better one.We count now 23 dead birds and the last found ones from territorial fights.
Visitors
This is the highlight of the week.The students came from all around the world . What a pleasure for us to introduce them to this magical world…and guess what: happened the non expected :When a group of them was here, some Orcas, 3 of them came around and inside the passage. They jumped like never before and even the whale watchers vessels had to stay outside (they did) . Our students were the only one present for a true show. Just amazing! We managed to get some pictures but they were already far from the rock.
Maintenance
Wood all organized for Winter. Water sampling house deeply cleaned and new carpet put in. Bathroom window locker changed.Electrical line repaired.
Boats
Many whale watchers around even before the sunset and the night.Plane over 2 times.