Weather
- Visibility: 15 miles
- Wind: 10-15 knts W
- Sky: Clear
- Water: Ripply
Boats/Visitors/Sightings
- Lots of ecotour boats between 12 and 1 pm, and a few private boats as well, making race passage quite crowded
Mammal Notes
- Some steller sea lions have arrived on the northwestern rocks! It’s hard to get an accurate count from this distance, but I estimate 12-15 including one really big one (a webcam viewer informed me that the big bull is branded “76Y”). Photographed below.
- I got a closer look at the injured californian sea lion that was hanging out near the guest house earlier, and it definitely has an injury on its hind flipper. I saw it try to get into the water yesterday and it was pretty much dragging itself.
- The injured female seal has nestled itself by the boat shed. I don’t see any further injuries on it.
Census
- Elephant Seals
- Male = 4
- Female = 1
- Sea Lions
- California = 2
- Steller = 15
- Seagulls = 480 adults (a big part of them remain on the smaller rock islands during low tide), ~100 babies (hard to estimate)
- Pigeon Guillemot = 85
- Eagles = 2
- Oystercatchers = 12 adults
- Harbour Seals = 25 adults, 2 babies
- Geese = 0
- Black turnstone = 55