Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 5-15 NW
- Sky: Overcast
- Water: Flat calm
Boats/Visitors
- Quite a bit of boat traffic, most of it being whale watching tours
- Guy came by with a couple more boat loads of students to give them a tour around the island
Maintenance
- Didn’t have to do any pressure washing today thanks to the rain although I did have to run the generator a bit to make up for not getting any solar energy today
Ecological
- An elephant seal showed up yesterday and she is still around today, so thats exciting
- also there have been a few humpback whale sightings and Guy said he saw some killer whales on the way over here but I missed them unfortunately
- plenty of sea lions, seems like there is more everyday
- not as many gulls as last week and I haven’t seen any cormorants on the outer rocks today
Census
- stellar sea lions – 132
- california sea lions – 314
- harbour seals – 94
- gulls – 261
- elephant seals – 1 female
- black turnstones – 12
- fox sparrows – 2