Weather: 

• Visibility: 15+ miles
• Sky: overcast
• Wind: 15-20 kn NW
• Water: Little choppy under 1 foot

Visitors/Boats: 

• The past few days we have seen more pleasure crafts than tour boats and these pleasure crafts get way too close and I can never find them on the radio because it is very hard to know which channel they are on
• A group students stayed Saturday night to film around the island looking at ecological impacts which around here are mostly due to sea lions trampling all the green and turning it into mud

Ecological

• The little steller is still around, haven’t noticed any new injuries on any of the sea lions
• the sea lion that was by the jetty before that seemed lethargic and didn’t really respond to people left for 2 maybe 3 days and is now back in the same spot and it is much more energetic and responsive than before
• the number of sea lions seems to have gone up from the last census by about 100, will post more numbers below
• I have been consistently seeing about two humpback whales per day

Maintenance

• The fence now only needs typically one minor repair per day, the sea lions are getting used to staying away from it
• I still need to stay on top of clearing them away from certain areas, they seem to not crowd the entrance to the generator room anymore or the burial cairns as much, but they have taken a strong liking to the grass around the lighthouse

Census

• Sea Lions – 600, most of them are californias
• Harbour Seals – 30
• Gulls – 40
• Canada Geese – 24
• Fox Sparrow – 3
• Turnstones – 30
• Cormorants – 50
• Sea Otter – 1
• Humpback Whales – about 2 per day