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Monday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 0-15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-30 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy to dense fog in the late afternoon
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy, came by with a few guys to start moving out the old batteries so the new batteries will hopefully be lifted off the concrete soon and we won’t have to run the generator as much

Ecological

  • Still a dozen elephants, one young male among all the females

 

Beautiful Weather

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 W
  • Sky: Clear and sunny
  • Water: Flat calm

Boats/Visitors

  • many boats going by today, ecotours, sailboats, fishing boats
  • Guy also came by to pick up the students that stayed in the student house lastnight

Ecological

  • about a dozen elephants, one male and the rest female
  • not too many sea lions around though

Visitors

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Weather

  • Visibility: 0-15 Miles
  • Wind: 5-25 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a lot of ecotours along with sailboats and fishing boats out today
  • I have a group of students staying in the student house tonight

Ecological

  • still a dozen elephant seals, one male among them
  • looks like the sea otter was out in the kelp again today, I can only tell because ecotour boats kept circling the kelp patch

Other

  • Fog horn started going off at 1am last night and continued until maybe 7 this morning

Census, sailors and kayakers

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • along with two kayakers and a bunch of sailboats

Ecological

  • about a dozen elephants, quite a few different birds and not a lot of sea lions about today
  • a possible sea otter in the north kelp bed but I couldn’t see it, but there were boats circling around there
  • saw an oyster catcher nest as well

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 12
  • california sea lions – 25
  • harbour seals – 32
  • elephant seals – 11 female, 1 male
  • gulls – 180
  • cormorants – 18
  • pigeon guillemots – 220
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 14
  • fox sparrows – 10
  • geese – 16
  • eagles – 2
  • sea otter – maybe 1

Wednesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-25 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy and Clarence came by for a fuel delivery, I needed to top up my big tank

Ecological

  • about 11 elephant seals today, 10 female, one young male
  • the elephants are blocking a goose off from its nest again, they seem to like the spot

So Much Fog

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Weather

  • Visibility: 0-15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-25 SW
  • Sky: From dense fog to sunshine throughout the day
  • Water: A bit wavy, under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • the middle of the day was nice so there were quite a few boats out
  • Guy stopped by today to get the big fuel tank

Ecological

  • Total of 9 female elephants and one young male
  • the geese I think are done laying eggs, but I’m not totally sure
  • it also looks like their might be some oyster catcher nests around, need to take a closer look

Other

  • the fog was pretty dense my fog horn was going off from 10pm last night to 7am this morning and again around 8-9 or 10am

 

Elephants vs Geese

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • as well as some sailboats and fishing boats

Ecological

  • a couple of the female elephants were blocking off a goose from her nest and the goose was pretty upset but the elephant seals could not be bothered and stayed napping there for a while