a few boats out today, fishing sailing and ecotours
Maintenance
Ran the desal for awhile, tank is topped up, hopefully, no more running it for hours every day
Ecological
It looks like the female pup might have gone in today, if she didn’t then she was very close, I will check again tomorrow morning if the pups are in the water
the male pup has been beside the house all day, so I know he didn’t go in
still one other male elephant on island, Bernard, the alpha
closer to 200 sea lions today, maybe due to the nice weather we’ve been having, also a lot of harbour seals on the south rock
the number of gulls is slowly increasing, at least from the noise level it seems like it
The desal quit on me a couple of times last night so I’m trying for a longer run tonight
Ecological
The pups still have not gone into the water, haven’t even gone near the jetty, they are both still beside the main house, they have been chewing on the grass a bit
the pigeon guillemots are back, looks to be a couple hundred of them
still around 100 sea lions, and about 50 harbour seals all together on the surrounding rocks
there are about 16 geese which I’m sure are starting to look for good nesting spots, there is also an increase in seagulls, I can tell from how noisy they are
Guy and Greg came by on Tuesday to help me with a fuel transfer which can get tricky when there’s a big elephant seal blocking the way
Maintenance
Going to move some more firewood around today, still unsure about pressure as my desalinator speed can’t quite keep up
Ecological
The pups have been hanging out together but still haven’t gone for a swim, should be soon the female pup is over 2 months old and the male pup is only a week younger than her
There are still 3 large males on the island, the youngest one will chase the pups around but no major injuries so far just a couple little bite marks
no other females on the island
by the looks of it, there are only around 100 sea lions left, wonder if they’ll stick out the summer until their buddies come back
No visitors lately, there have been a couple of ecotours cruising by
Maintenance
Just running the generator and trying to get the fresh water topped up so I can do more pressure washing
Ecological
The male pup found a puddle and was splashing around for a bit yesterday, the female pup was heading down there until the youngest male decided to go after them again.
There are 3 males on the island and the youngest one is always harassing the pups, the alpha is not as protective of these ones as he was of the two female pups last year. The pups have not been harmed just chased around a lot.
Saw a few boats out there today including the coast guard boat doing maintenance on the green buoy
Maintenance
Walked around picking up all those roofing shingles that blew off in the last big wind, would like to continue cleaning up by pressure washing but I don’t have nearly enough fresh water and the desalinator is not running very well, hopefully, this is resolved soon
Ecological
the pups are not together but don’t stray too far from each other, they haven’t gone in the water yet
there are still 4 mature males on island and one molting young female
Guy came by with a group yesterday, they had a nice little tour, saw the elephant seals
Maintenance
The generator is needing a lot of run time still, and the desalinator is running alright, I need to fill up my freshwater tank now that I know nothing is frozen
Ecological
the pups are doing great, they haven’t gone down to the water yet, but probably will soon, there are still about 5 male elephant seals around and one young female is here and she is molting right now
