Ecological Notes:
- 3 Female Elephant Seals
- 3 Elephant Seal pups. Pup #1 moved over the raised path and is associating with mom #1 again
- Still no big Male Elephant Seals present, but I thought I may have heard one during the night, south of the reserve.
- Heard the light peeps and coos I haven’t heard in at least a couple months…… a group of Pigeon Guillemots in the water off the end of the pier.
Visitors:
- Diesel fuel delivery
Facility Work:
- Battery system electrolyte top up
- Battery system equalization charge
- Desalinator has been working as expected
- Checked oil, and ran up the gasoline backup generator, and both pressure washers
- Firewood collecting and splitting
- Month end records and reporting
Noted Vessel Traffic:
- A group of vessels doing manoeuvres west of the reserve. Then more noted between the reserve and Victoria when we went in for fuel.
Weather Events:
- Tuesday, January 31:
- Sky: Overcast with some lower clouds
- Wind: NNE to ENE 10-15 kts
- Sea: calm and rippled
- Temperature Low 2oC, High 6oC
- Sky: Overcast with some lower clouds
- Wednesday, February 01:
- Sky:High overcast with sunny breaks
- Wind: ENE 10-20 kts
- Sea: some SE swells early until the tide changed, then light chop
- Temperature Low 2oC, High 7oC
- Thursday, February 02:
- Sky: High overcast with sunny breaks, lower clouds to the south on the Olympic Peninsula side
- Wind: NE/NNE 10_15kts, veering to ENE in the afternoon
- Sea: light chop
- Temperature Low 3oC, High 7oC
- Sky: High overcast with sunny breaks, lower clouds to the south on the Olympic Peninsula side
** All wildlife photos taken at the furthest distance possible, and may be cropped to improve detail! **
Weather – Current:
http://www.victoriaweather.ca/current.php?id=72
Weather – Past: