Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 20-40 NW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Waves 1-2 meters
Boats/Visitors
- saw a few boats go by today but not many, its been blowing pretty hard
Ecological
- the dozen elephants stayed around the yard today
Category Archives: weather notes
Monday
Weather
- Visibility: 0-15 Miles
- Wind: 10-30 NW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy to dense fog in the late afternoon
- Water: Calm
Boats/Visitors
- a few ecotours went by today
- Guy, came by with a few guys to start moving out the old batteries so the new batteries will hopefully be lifted off the concrete soon and we won’t have to run the generator as much
Ecological
- Still a dozen elephants, one young male among all the females
Visitors
Weather
- Visibility: 0-15 Miles
- Wind: 5-25 NW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Calm
Boats/Visitors
- a lot of ecotours along with sailboats and fishing boats out today
- I have a group of students staying in the student house tonight
Ecological
- still a dozen elephant seals, one male among them
- looks like the sea otter was out in the kelp again today, I can only tell because ecotour boats kept circling the kelp patch
Other
- Fog horn started going off at 1am last night and continued until maybe 7 this morning
So Much Fog
Weather
- Visibility: 0-15 Miles
- Wind: 10-25 SW
- Sky: From dense fog to sunshine throughout the day
- Water: A bit wavy, under a metre
Boats/Visitors
- the middle of the day was nice so there were quite a few boats out
- Guy stopped by today to get the big fuel tank
Ecological
- Total of 9 female elephants and one young male
- the geese I think are done laying eggs, but I’m not totally sure
- it also looks like their might be some oyster catcher nests around, need to take a closer look
Other
- the fog was pretty dense my fog horn was going off from 10pm last night to 7am this morning and again around 8-9 or 10am
Census and Fog
Weather
- Visibility: 0-15 Miles, fog a few times throughout the day
- Wind: 15-35 NW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Waves 1-2 metres
Boats/Visitors
- a few ecotours went by today
Ecological
- there were quite a few californias on the jetty
- there is one young male in the about 9 elephant seals, photos included
Census
- stellar sea lions – 38
- california sea lions – 25
- harbour seals – 32
- elephant seals – 9 female 1 male
- gulls – 150
- cormorants – 28
- pigeon guillemots – 50
- black turnstones – 18
- harlequinn ducks – 0
- oyster catchers – 14
- fox sparrows – 8
- geese – 16
Visitors and census
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 20-40 NW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Waves 1-2 metres
Boats/Visitors
- a few ecotours went by today
- Guy, dropped off a group of 8 students and 1 chaperone from Pearson College for a little overnight trip
Ecological
- Seems to be less sea lions lately, and only about 9 elephants
Census
- stellar sea lions – 23
- california sea lions – 31
- harbour seals – 42
- elephant seals – 9 female
- gulls – 150
- cormorants – 28
- pigeon guillemots – 152
- black turnstones – 28
- oyster catchers – 14
- fox sparrows – 12
- geese – 16
Sunday
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 20-40 SW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Waves 1-2 metres
Boats/Visitors
- Didn’t really see any boats today, its been blowing pretty hard
Ecological
- the 5 female elephant seals are still around, no new ones today
Friday
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 10-20 NW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Pretty calm throughout the day
Boats/Visitors
- a few boats went by today
Ecological
- An adult female elephant seal showed up today and she had a pretty wornout orange tag on her that so she was definitely the one here last week, it is an orange tag reading T563, she was here on March 21st as well when I took the picture of it
- the pups are doing fine and were right beside each other this morning but now are a bit seperated on either side of the adult females
- also there were about 6 ravens flying around, I don’t see them around too often, I’ve seen crows around but not many ravens
Census
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-10 SW
- Sky: Cloudy
- Water: Flat Calm
Boats/Visitors
- a few boats went by today, along with a couple visitors on the island
Ecological
- The pups are inseperable, its adorable, then an older female that is pretty large showed up today and got right in between them, the youngest pup was pretty upset about it but the three of them are napping together now
Census
- stellar sea lions – 29
- california sea lions – 74
- harbour seals – 15
- elephant seals – 3 female
- gulls – 205
- cormorants – 24
- pigeon guillemots – 276
- black turnstones – 31
- harlequinn ducks – 12
- oyster catchers – 12
- fox sparrows – 2
- geese – 14
- eagles – 2
Wednesday
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 15-25 NW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Some waves throughout the day 0-1 metres
Boats/Visitors
- a few ecotours went by today, had some visitors on the island today
Ecological
- the past few days the two pups have been inseperable, they were playing together in the water this morning and are sleeping by the flag pole now, strange they havent seem to really connected with each other until the past few days