Weather

• Visibility: 15 Miles
• Wind: 5-15 NW
• Sky: Overcast
• Water: Flat calm

Boats/Visitors

• Quite a bit of boat traffic, most of it being whale watching tours
• Guy came by with a couple more boat loads of students to give them a tour around the island

Maintenance

•  Didn’t have to do any pressure washing today thanks to the rain although I did have to run the generator a bit to make up for not getting any solar energy today

Ecological

• An elephant seal showed up yesterday and she is still around today, so thats exciting
• also there have been a few humpback whale sightings and Guy said he saw some killer whales on the way over here but I missed them unfortunately
• plenty of sea lions, seems like there is more everyday
• not as many gulls as last week and I haven’t seen any cormorants on the outer rocks today

Census

• stellar sea lions – 132
• california sea lions – 314
• harbour seals – 94
• gulls – 261
• elephant seals – 1 female
• black turnstones – 12
• fox sparrows – 2