Weather:
- Blue skies, no clouds
- Visibility 15+ miles
- Wind 10-20 knots W
- Water calm
Boats/Visitors:
- Greg came by yesterday with some fresh water for our main tank.
- Quite a few tour vessels
- Greg and Pearson Alumni are touring the reserve over the next few days as part of their reunion, but they will not be coming on land.
Ecological:
- There are quite a few more sea lions this week than last. They have started to haul out on Great Race Rock in addition to West and Middle Rock.
Census:
- 51 sea lions
- 40 seals (including 3-5 pups)
- 3 Cormorants
- 2 families of geese (from the spring nesting season)
- 2 elephant seals (moulting males)
- 300 + seagulls
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- The first hatched chicks are looking scruffy as their flight feathers fill in
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- Elephant seal (male)
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- Blowing bubbles to clean out his nose
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- Sea lion
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- A sea lion heading in to cool off
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- Pearson College’s vessel “Second Nature” enjoying the Olympic Mountains (US)
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- The solar panels that supply our batteries
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- A seal pup playing in the water as its mother rests on land
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- Another seal pup nursing
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- Cormorants
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- Male elephant seal making his way out of the water
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- A seagull chick hiding in the grass
