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