My solitude has been broken,
Yesterday Garry Fletcher,a former Pearson College teacher and current ecological reserve warden, came to the island to spend the night. He was taking advantage of the last weekday low tide for the next 8 days to get some pictures of the intertidal life. I sure am glad that he did!
Facility Work:
His stay started with an oil change of the diesel generator that is on the island. This has to be done every 200 hours.
Greg giving me a quick rundown before he has to head back to the college
Cleaning of solar panels (daily)
Cleaning of windows (as needed)
Cleaning interior of secondary residence
The next morning we attacked the reason for his visit first thing in the morning while the tide was still dropping
Here I am paying out the tape on peg 15 to then take pictures of the intertidal life at low tide. Garry was collecting this data to compare with baseline photo transects taken many years ago.
Ecological Notes:
Several Orcas were sighted in Race Passage.
Garry also took this video of a sea otter passing us when we were working in the intertidal area.off the North East corner of Great Race Island.
noted Western X Glaucous-winged Gull hybrid by helicopter pad
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Weather – Past: http://www.victoriaweather.ca/station.php?
Environment Canada forecast: