Visitors

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SE
  • Sky: Overcast
  • Water: Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few ecotours went by today
  • Had a couple tours today, people from the college visiting race rocks

Ecological

  • 6 adult female elephant seals in the front yeard, and one of the pups, the other pup still hasn’t been around I assume she is out hunting, hopefully she will turn up soon

Census

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 SW
  • Sky: Cloudy
  • Water: Flat Calm

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today, along with a couple visitors on the island

Ecological

  • The pups are inseperable, its adorable, then an older female that is pretty large showed up today and got right in between them, the youngest pup was pretty upset about it but the three of them are napping together now

Census

  • stellar sea lions – 29
  • california sea lions – 74
  • harbour seals – 15
  • elephant seals – 3 female
  • gulls – 205
  • cormorants – 24
  • pigeon guillemots – 276
  • black turnstones – 31
  • harlequinn ducks – 12
  • oyster catchers – 12
  • fox sparrows – 2
  • geese – 14
  • eagles – 2

Tuesday

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

0 SW

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

Visitors

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

Tagged female elephant seal

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-25 NW
  • Sky: Mostly Cloudy
  • Water: Waves 1-2 metres in the morning, 0 in the evening

Boats/Visitors

  • a few boats went by today
  • had a couple visitors along with the two alumni that spent the night

Ecological

  • Both pups were by the jetty today, the older pup went in but the younger stayed close to the new female who is also by the jetty
  • the new female appears to be young still and she is tagged, there was mud on the tag so I’m not quite sure what the number was it was a green tag C-8?7

Wednesday

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 10-20 NE
  • Sky: cloudy with sunny periods
  • Water: choppy, 1-2 metres

Boats/Visitors

  • Had the guys working on the project by the student house here today
  • Kyle came by with a student as well to show him around a bit
  • Had an ecotour and a couple fishing boats and a sailboat cruise by today as well

Ecological

  • Both pups still around this morning, the younger pup found a safe spot away from the males near the helicopter pad, so she did a bit of rock climbing to get there
  • also saw a few Killdeer birds around today

Visitors

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind: 0-10 NE
  • Sky: Sunny
  • Water: Pretty calm

Boats/Visitors

  • Had some people come by today to work on a project by the student house
  • Guy brought the Race Rocks boat by today and put it in the boat shed, will hopefully be getting trained next week

Ecological

  • The oldest pup came back today, I think she just went out for a swim yesterday
  • The younger pup has moved around a bit and she has mostly been left alone today too

Visitors!

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  10-20 SE
  • Sky: clear all day
  • Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

  • Had some friends come visit for a few hours today, so nice to see them
  • also plenty of ecotours cruising by

Ecological

  • seems like there is less sea lions that the other day
  • did not see any elephant seals today but i am sure there is some around

Notes

  • There were also some humpbacks swimming around today