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Weather
- Visibility: 15 miles
- Wind: 5-13 NE throughout day
- Sky: sunny with cloudy periods
- Water: mostly calm
Boats/Visitors
- didn’t see any eco tours today
- lots of shipping vessels in the distance as usual
- no visitors today
Ecological
- number of sea lions hanging around seems to be going slightly down
- consistent number of seagulls and cormorants
Other
- lots of DND blasts today.
Weather
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 12-16 NE throughout the day
- Sky: sunny, very few clouds
- Water: mostly calm, a bit choppy
Boats/Visitors
- Had one large eco tour boat full of passengers sneak up on me and yell “Hello” as a group. That was fun (:
- lots of large shipping vessels passing by including two huge logging barges
Ecological
- still a decent amount of sea lions around
- there is another, smaller harbour seal pup hanging out now too
- Bernard (the elephant seal) is back!
- haven’t seen any canadian geese in a few days
Other
- had more large DND blasts go off from Rocky Point that shook the house and startled birds today.
Weather
Visibility: 15 Miles
Wind: 0-10 NE
Sky: cloudy and rainy
Water: a bit choppy this morning, calm now
Boats/Visitors
- Had a couple boats cruise by and a helicopter flew by a couple times
Census
- California sea lions – 215
- Stellar sea lions – 159
- Harbour seals – 22
- Elephant seals – 1 large male
- Gulls – 307
- Cormorants – 68
- Geese – 14
- Eagles – 4
Notes
- well I am off tomorrow and Mikey will be the new ecoguardian until my return in 5 weeks
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 15-30 NW throughout the day
- Sky: cloudy for the most part, bit of sun came through
- Water: a bit choppy today
Boats/Visitors
- Had a couple boats cruise by
Ecological
- a few hundred sea lions still
- and one big male elephant seal in front of the house
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 5-15 SE
- Sky: cloudy but got a good amount of sun
- Water: calm
Boats/Visitors
- Had a few boats cruise by
Ecological
- same amount of sea lions
- one large male elephant seal
- plenty of harbour seals
- and I finally saw a pod of maybe 8 orcas today
Notes
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 20-45 SW throughout the day
- Sky: cloudy
- Water: choppy today, I would say waves came up to a metre
Boats/Visitors
- didn’t really see any passing boats today
Ecological
- still quite a few sea lions around
- and one big male elephant seal
- I haven’t seen the harbour seal pup today
Notes
- the wind is really picking now, in the 40’s tonight
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 0-10 NE
- Sky: overcast
- Water: flat
Boats/Visitors
- Had quite a few boats cruise by
Ecological
- So many eagles, counted at least 16 all together
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 15-30 SW throughout the day
- Sky: cloudy for the most part, bit of sun came through
- Water: a bit choppy today
Boats/Visitors
- Had a couple boats cruise by
Ecological
- slightly less sea lions
- also saw, oystercatchers, harlequinns
- a couple eagles
Notes
- looks like the wind is going to pick up again tonight
Census
- Stellar Sea Lions – 267
- California Sea Lions – 142
- Harbour Seals – 14
- Elephant Seals – possibly one on the outer rocks, not sure
- Gulls – 275
- Cormorants – 321
- Black Turnstones – 32
- Geese – 16
- Oystercatchers – 4
- Harlequinn Ducks – 16
- Eagles – 2
- Visibility: 0 Miles in the morning 15 in the afternoon
- Wind: 0-15 SW
- Sky: cloudy for the most part, bit of sun came through
- Water: a bit choppy today
Boats/Visitors
- Had a few boats cruise by
Ecological
- same amount of sea lions, no elephant seals yet
Notes
- had a good amount of fog in the morning, went away in the afternoon
- Visibility: 15 Miles
- Wind: 15-30 SE this morning but is now 5-10 NE
- Sky: cloudy for the most part, bit of sun came through
- Water: a bit choppy today
Boats/Visitors
- Had one or two boats cruise by
Ecological
- same amount of sea lions, no elephant seals yet
