Visitors

Posted on Monday,September 25, 2017 by Laas Parnell

Weather

Visibility: 0-15 Miles throughout the day
Wind: 0-10 SW throughout the day
Sky: foggy morning only until about 9ish then it cleared up but still overcast
Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

Had Garry Fletcher come for a visit along with a year 4 Pearson alumni and another friend.
some ecotours came by today too

Ecological

plenty of sea lions around

Notes

Guy showed me how to use the pressure washer so hopefully get a few of this buildings looking nicer on the outside

Caught in the Fog

Posted on Sunday,September 24, 2017 by Laas Parnell

Weather

Visibility: from 0-15 throughout the day, mostly 0
Wind: 10-15 SW
Sky: overcast in the morning caught in the fog most of the day and overcast again around 5:30pm
Water: choppy less than a metre

Boats/Visitors

Some ecotours today

Ecological

plenty of sea lions around

Notes

My fog horn was going off for hours today
ran the desalinator a bit, trying to get back up to a full tank
the electric fence was pretty tangled today but I got it back up

Sunny Days

Posted on Saturday,September 23, 2017 by Laas Parnell

Weather

Visibility: 15 Miles throughout the day
Wind: 10-15 SW throughout the day
Sky: cloudy this morning and cleared up in the afternoon
Water: calmish, fast current

Boats/Visitors

quite a few ecotours throughout the day

Ecological

plenty of sea lions around

Notes

wind was blowing a bit harder today but it was still sunny, no visitors or anything out of the ordinary

Sea Lion Rescue

Posted on Friday,September 22, 2017 by Laas Parnell

Weather

Visibility: 15 Miles throughout the day
Wind: 0-5 SW throughout the day
Sky: clear this morning, clouds rolled in around 3
Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

Fisheries along with a vet and people from the aquarium came by to help a sea lion who had a piece of rope or something like it wrapped around its neck

Ecological

plenty of sea lions around

Notes

DnD was blasting again today
It was nice to have those people come around to help the sea lion out, they first sedated it via dart gun and once it was safe to approach they removed the garbage that was wrapped around the sea lions neck and monitored it until woke up and swam away

I am Back and the Census

Posted on Thursday,September 21, 2017 by Laas Parnell

Sorry about my last 10 days being absent but I am back now and here is an updated census.

Weather

Visibility: Pretty clear 15 Miles throughout today
Wind: 0-5 SW with small range all day
Sky: Sunny all day
Water: pretty flat but the current is very visible and moving

Boats/Visitors

I came in today and so did a few students to have a look around, we also had an engineer to come look at the new generator

Ecological

quite a bit of sea lions, I don’t see the elephant seal sticking around anymore and I have not seen any oyster catchers today. Also the sea otter in the north kelp patch is back

Census

Stellar Sea Lions: 142
California Sea Lions: 186
Elephant Seals: 0
Harbour Seals: 28
Unspecified Gulls: 153
Pigeon Guillemots: 0
Cormorants: 18
Canada Geese: 12
Oystercatchers: 0
Black Turnstones: 48

Lazy Day

Posted on Saturday,September 9, 2017 by Laas Parnell

Weather

Visibility: 15 Miles
Wind: 10-15 SW
Sky: overcast some rain
Water: pretty flat throughout the day

Boats/Visitors

A few ecotours came by today

Ecological

Definitely more sea lions everyday plus that one female elephant seal that is sticking around

Notes

Puttered around today, almost have a full water tank again, and enjoyed taking photos of the frequently napping sea lions
Now that there is more cloud cover the solar panels aren’t bringing in a lot of energy so I do need to run the generator to run the desalinator

Foggy Day

Posted on Friday,September 8, 2017 by Laas Parnell

Weather

Visibility: 10 Miles sometimes less throughout the day
Wind: 10-15 SW sometimes a bit lighter sometimes a bit stronger
Sky: Cloudy this morning for a bit and then foggy for awhile, cleared up in the afternoon now you can see some blue sky and sunshine
Water: mostly flat a little choppy

Boats/Visitors

Had a special visit at 6:30 this morning, the Parliament Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Youth dropped by for a quick visit

Ecological

Have to update my census, I saw an elephant seal this morning, a young female
the unspecified birds in the photo from yesterday are a type of gull that I still have not identified
There appears to be more sea lions everyday

Census Day

Posted on Thursday,September 7, 2017 by Laas Parnell

Weather

Visibility: Started off at 10 miles but closed in to the point the fog horn was going off for a good part of the morning and then a sunny break this afternoon and back to pretty cloudy now
Wind: 10-15 W this morning picked up to above 30, same direction
Sky: pretty cloudy with a little break in the afternoon
Water: pretty flat but the current is very visible and moving

Boats/Visitors

A few ecotours today

Ecological

plenty of sea lions, not really seeing elephant seals, also there was about 26 of these birds I will post a picture of but I wasn’t what bird it was, will look into it.

Census

Stellar Sea Lions: 176
California Sea Lions: 153
Elephant Seals: 0
Harbour Seals: 24
Unspecified Gulls: 212
Pigeon Guillemots: 0
Cormorants: 18
Canada Geese: 8
Oystercatchers: 8
Harlequinn Ducks: 0
Crows: 0
Unspecified bird: 26

Notes

Have not spotted the river otters again
Sea lions refused to budge when I went to get the water sample, I gave up and found a way around the one that would not move
They somehow dragged a ladder down the jetty so I had a tough time retrieving that because the ladder was attached to a rope that got wrapped around a rock, I managed to bring it up behind the boat shed, also the boat shed door looks to be in pretty rough shape the sea lions are always piled up against it

Sept 3, 4, 5 and 6th

Posted on Wednesday,September 6, 2017 by Laas Parnell

I am back on Race Rocks and am very happy to be here, I had some log in trouble so this post will be for the past few days.

Weather,

On the third it was nice and sunny with little breeze, it was so nice I could run the desalinator without the generator. Started getting cloudy the next couple days and this morning the fog horn went off for a few minutes.

Ecological

I will be doing the census tomorrow but so far the number of sea lions seem to be growing, I have not seen any elephant seals, the harbour seal are right in there with the sea lions and I saw a river otter or two running around last night.

Other

Plenty of whale watchers coming around everyday, a couple sailboats and other than that the DnD seem to be blasting consistently which the sea lions aren’t too happy about.

That sums up my first few days back, I will be doing the census tomorrow and here are a few pictures from the last couple days.