• Visibility: Started off at 10 miles but closed in to the point the fog horn was going off for a good part of the morning and then a sunny break this afternoon and back to pretty cloudy now
• Wind:  10-15 W this morning picked up to above 30, same direction
• Sky: pretty cloudy with a little break in the afternoon
• Water: pretty flat but the current is very visible and moving

Boats/Visitors

• A few ecotours today

Ecological

• plenty of sea lions, not really seeing elephant seals, also there was about 26 of these birds I will post a picture of but I wasn’t what bird it was, will look into it.

Census

• Stellar Sea Lions: 176
• California Sea Lions: 153
• Elephant Seals: 0
• Harbour Seals: 24
• Unspecified Gulls: 212
• Pigeon Guillemots: 0
• Cormorants: 18
• Canada Geese: 8
• Oystercatchers: 8
• Harlequinn Ducks: 0
• Crows: 0
• Unspecified bird: 26

Notes

• Have not spotted the river otters again
• Sea lions refused to budge when I went to get the water sample, I gave up and found a way around the one that would not move
• They somehow dragged a ladder down the jetty so I had a tough time retrieving that because the ladder was attached to a rope that got wrapped around a rock, I managed to bring it up behind the boat shed, also the boat shed door looks to be in pretty rough shape the sea lions are always piled up against it