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- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-15 SE
- Sky: a little cloudy but mostly clear throughout the day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had Kyle deliver some fuel today and there were plenty of ecotours cruising by
Ecological
- the usual sea lions and elephant seals and planty of humpbacks around
Notes
- the sea lions seem to be leaving more everyday
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-15 SE
- Sky: pretty clear throughout the day
- Water: waves this morning, about 1 metre
Boats/Visitors
- Had quite a few ecotours cruise by today
Ecological
- 3 elephant seals by the jetty and plenty of humpbacks around
- Visibility: 0 Miles in the morning 15 the rest of the day
- Wind: 0-10 SE
- Sky: Foggy this morning, mostly clear the rest of the day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had quite a few ecotours cruise around today
Ecological
- 2 elephant seals spotted today and 2 eagles on the outer rocks
Notes
- Ran the desalinator and generator today, the freshwater tank is almost full
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-5 NE
- Sky: clear all day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Gorgeous weather means plenty of ecotours
Ecological
- the elephant seal made another appearance today, there were humpbacks, sea lions, and eagles
Notes
- power went out early this morning so I turned on the generator and gave the solar panels a scrub, so hopefully it doesn’t happen again
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-15 SE
- Sky: clear most of the day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had plenty of ecotours cruising by
Ecological
- Not as many sea lions today, they might have peaked by now but last year they didn’t start leaving until mid november
- there were a couple injured sea lions plus a dead one
- only saw one elephant seal today but I’m sure the others are around
- So many stellars, mostly on the outer rocks
- there was also an eagle
- haven’t seen the otter or any oyster catchers
- also saw a few humpbacks out there (not included in census)
Notes
- plenty of solar input today
Census
- Stellar Sea Lions – 235
- California Sea Lions – 421
- Harbour Seals – 18
- Elephant Seals – 1(seen) I’m sure there are at least 3 or 4 more around
- Gulls (unspecified) – 456
- Cormorants – 713
- Black Turnstones – 22
- Geese – 8
- Eagle – 1
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-5 SE
- Sky: clear all day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had quite a few ecotours drive by
Ecological
- plenty of sea lions still
Notes
- The weather has been really nice today, good for solar input
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 10-15 NE
- Sky: pretty cloudy most of the day
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had some ecotours drive by
Ecological
- so many sea lions
- 5 elephant seals scattered around
- a gull with a broken wing
- and some california gulls around
- also saw the eagle again today
Notes
- go to run the desalinator for awhile today, its been difficult to get to with all the sea lions around
- Visibility: 10 Miles
- Wind: 15-30 NW
- Sky: cloudy but there was some sunshine today
- Water: pretty rough with wind and waves
Boats/Visitors
Ecological
- plenty of sea lions around along with the 5 female elephant seals
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 20-30 SW
- Sky: cloudy, but lots of sun
- Water: rough
Boats/Visitors
- Kyle dropped off some fuel for me today
Ecological
- plenty of sea lions around and the 5 elephant seals
Notes
- Had some good solar input today
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-10 NE
- Sky: Overcast
- Water: calm, sort of, there was a bit of a swell out there
Boats/Visitors
- Kyle dropped off a food order and helped with some facility work other than that there were the usual ecotours
Ecological
- More sea lions than last week
- Same 5 elephant seals
- a lot of birds, gulls, turnstones, oystercatchers, geese, cormorants and an eagle
- Still not sure if the sea otter is out there, he is very hard to see from here
Notes
- DnD was blasting today
- The new generator is working great, just need more fuel
Census
- California Sea Lions – 512
- Stellar Sea Lions – 141
- Unspecified Gulls – 620
- Cormorants – 228
- Black Turnstones – 26
- Oystercatchers – 22
- Geese – 16
- Eagle – 1
- Harbour Seals – 30
- Elephant Seals – 5
