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
Visibility: mostly clear in the day with fog and a bit of snow in the evening
Wind: Light gusts throughout the day
Sky: Cloudy with sunny periods
Water: a bit rough, 1 meter swells at times
Boats/Visitors
had the usual ‘4 ever wild’ whale watching boat go by
No visitors today
Ecological
Still a decent amount of sea lions on and around the island.
The two big male elephant seals have been mostly keeping their distance from each other but today Bernard, the larger of the two, asserted a bit of dominance by moving closer inland towards Big George, the smaller of the two.
Other
DND blasting has taken a break for the past few weeks which has been nice.
Visibility: 15 miles for most of the day with the Washington coast as clear as I’ve seen it so far, until early evening when fog came in from the east covering downtown Victoria from view.
Wind: Little to no breeze during the day with it picking up to 14-18 knots by 7pm.
Sky: Mostly cloudy with some sun
Water: calm throughout the day, a bit choppy at times
Boats/Visitors
Boat traffic was fairly minimum today with the usual commercial vessels in the distance and one or two whale watching boats.
No visitors today
Ecological
There seems to be more stellar sea lion pups on the island, especially on the south rocks in the last few days, though I may just have not noticed them among the “piles” of bodies as they tend to lay all over each other.
Still lots of Black Turnstones, Cormorants, Eagles, Canada Geese and Gulls around
Only saw one of the male elephant seals around today
Other
Chopped some bigger logs into kindling for the woodstove this afternoon and cleaned up a lot of rocks of varying sizes that have been falling from the paths and bank walls between the lighthouse and science house.
Pretty chilly today, had frost on the ground and frozen puddles for the first time.
