Tag Archives: elephantseal

Saturday

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Weather

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

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today alone with a bunch of sailboats and fishing boats in this beautiful weather
  • also a few divers around the island

Ecological

  • about 9 female elephants and one young male, they were all in and out of the water today

 

Friday

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Weather

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

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy came by today with a few others

Ecological

  • about 10 elephants all together, most female, one is a young male that is sticking around
  • I think the geese are done nesting now, I hope they are
  • The gulls are starting to build their nests but I don’t expect them to really start nesting for another few weeks

Wednesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy, brought by a group of Lauras marine science students to do a transect study at low tide today

Ecological

  • 9 female elephants, one of them I’m still not sure if its the pup or not and one more elephant that I am now sure is a young male

 

Tuesday

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • many ecotours driving by today
  • no visitors today but I think guy is coming by tomorrow to help me fuel up the generator

Ecological

  • it looked like the sea otter was in the kelp bed again today, a bit hard to tell from here
  • one of the younger female elephant seals almost looks like one of the babies because of the colouring, but I’m not sure because she looks a bit big to be only 3 months old
  • also I think there is a young male on island, the nose looks a little protruded but not enough to be sure, it might just be a large female

 

More visitors

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 15-25 NW
  • Sky: Cloudy
  • Water: A bit wavy less than a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy picked up the visitors from lastnight and a dropped off a new group of overnight visitors

Ecological

  • 10 adult female elephants all together
  • hardly any sea lions around

 

Visitors and census

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 20-40 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy, dropped off a group of 8 students and 1 chaperone from Pearson College for a little overnight trip

Ecological

  • Seems to be less sea lions lately, and only about 9 elephants

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 23
  • california sea lions – 31
  • harbour seals – 42
  • elephant seals – 9 female
  • gulls – 150
  • cormorants – 28
  • pigeon guillemots – 152
  • black turnstones – 28
  • oyster catchers – 14
  • fox sparrows – 12
  • geese – 16

More Visitors

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Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-15 NW
  • Sky: Partly Cloudy
  • Water: Choppy, under a metre

Boats/Visitors

  • quite a few ecotours went by today
  • Guy brought some people by to work on the coastal radar system and he also brought some students from the college for a tour

Ecological

  • 10 adult female elephant seals, all lying around the front yard today soaking in the sun