Quite a bit of boat traffic, most of it being whale watching tours
Guy came by with a couple more boat loads of students to give them a tour around the island
Maintenance
Didn’t have to do any pressure washing today thanks to the rain although I did have to run the generator a bit to make up for not getting any solar energy today
Ecological
An elephant seal showed up yesterday and she is still around today, so thats exciting
also there have been a few humpback whale sightings and Guy said he saw some killer whales on the way over here but I missed them unfortunately
plenty of sea lions, seems like there is more everyday
not as many gulls as last week and I haven’t seen any cormorants on the outer rocks today
Quite a bit of boat traffic, most of it being whale watching tours
Guy, Greg and Mike came by today to take the old washer and dryer in for repairs
Maintenance
did some pressure washing today, but will probably do more of the solar panels tomorrow, need to fuel up the pressure washer first
Ecological
Quite a few sea lions, and harbour seals around
Birds consist of seagulls and cormorants, haven’t seen any eagles or harlequinns around, there aren’t even any geese here today
it looks like one of the young seagulls, there are still about 7 maybe 9 around of the really young ones, but it looks like one of them was pecked at around its head
Plenty of ecotours, whalewatchers around today, by the way they were circling the kelp patch I assume the otter was there
Island maintenance
had to run the generator for a few hours today because there was not a lot of sunlight
also cleaned off the camera by the helicopter pad, received a message saying the cameras were getting difficult to see through
Bird notes
Nice to see a few younger seagulls around, they were already a decent size and lost their baby feathers by the time I got here last september
Marine mammals
Plenty of sea lions already on the main island, will need to put up a fence soon to keep them away from important areas, such as the generator room, don’t want to run into them if I need to get to the generator
About a dozen elephant seals out there today, one young male, the rest female
looks like there is a few oyster catcher nests around, I saw the one by the house awhile ago, I hope to see them hatch before I leave at the end of the month but we will see
