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Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 15-30 SW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Some waves 0-1 metres
Boats/Visitors
- a few boats went by today, ecotours and fishing
Ecological
- The pup were following each other for a bit this morning then went back to what seems to be their favourite spots
- Not much other than that happening, its been very windy today
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-10 SE
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Some waves 0-1 metre
Boats/Visitors
- a few boats went by today
Ecological
- the youngest pup went in the water today, photo included below
- another juvenile female elephant seal showed up, untagged
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-15 NW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Waves 1-3 metres today
Boats/Visitors
- a few boats went by today, ecotours
Ecological
- just the two female pups on island today
Notes
- went off island for a couple hours today, ran into town for a short visit
- looks like low winds this weekend, maybe a few short tours of the island next week
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 15-40 SW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Waves 1-2 metres
Boats/Visitors
- haven’t seen much activity probably because it was blowing 40 knots but the DND was blasting today
Ecological
- way less activity than usual probably because of the weather today, its supposed to calm down tomorrow
Census
- stellar sea lions – 22
- california sea lions – 43
- harbour seals – 0
- elephant seals – 3 female
- gulls – 215
- cormorants – 31
- pigeon guillemots – 0
- black turnstones – 18
- harlequinn ducks – 12
- oyster catchers – 8
- fox sparrows – 2
- geese – 14
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 10-20 SW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Waves 0-1 metres
Boats/Visitors
- a few boats went by today along with having a couple tours today from the college
Ecological
- haven’t seen the males around, only 3 elephant seals on the island today, both the pups along with one tagged female elephant seal, tag is C-887
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 5-20 NW
- Sky: Partly Cloudy
- Water: Waves 0-1 metres
Boats/Visitors
- a few boats went by today
- a small group from the college had a tour
Ecological
- Havent seen the males around today so just the two female pups along with the two tagged female elephant seals
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-10 SW was 0 this morning, came up in the afternoon
- Sky: Very Sunny
- Water: Flat Calm
Boats/Visitors
- quite a few boats out there
- also quite a few visitors coming to take a quick tour of race rocks
Ecological
- The males both seem to have gone off today, I haven’t seen them, I’ve only seen the pups along with the two juvenile tagged females
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 15-20 W
- Sky: Mostly Cloudy, rain in the late afternoon
- Water: Waves 0-1 metre
Boats/Visitors
- a few boats went by today,
- some staff from the college along with a group of people came by the island today for a little tour
Ecological
- Still the two males and 4 females, two of them tagged around the jetty
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-10 W
- Sky: Very Sunny
- Water: Flat Calm
Boats/Visitors
- quite a few fishing boats and ecotours out today
Ecological
- The oldest pup was in the water again today, I got some photos of her on the rocks near the water
- another tagged female elephant seal showed up today could only make out the last 3 digits on the tag which were 019
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-10 SE
- Sky: Sunny
- Water: Some waves this morning but calm later in the day
Boats/Visitors
- a few boats went by today, ecotours and fishing
Ecological
- An adult female elephant seal showed up today and the oldest pup was relaxing on the jetty with the sea lions
- also the juvenile male had blood on him, there may have been a couple small puncture wounds but nothing serious
- it was a beautiful afternoon, a bit difficult counting with all the movement
Census
- stellar sea lions – 75
- california sea lions – 112
- harbour seals – 28
- elephant seals – 2 male, 4 female
- gulls – 324
- cormorants – 35
- pigeon guillemots – 37 (there were way more yesterday)
- black turnstones – 18
- harlequinn ducks – 12
- oyster catchers – 11
- fox sparrows – 2
- geese – 12
