Weather:

• Visibility 15+ NM
• Sky clear
• Wind 15-20 knots W
• Sea state: calm, rippled
• It has been very windy this week. Most days the wind has hovered around 30 knots, sometimes as much as 35+ knots! It has been overcast intermittently, and we did receive some rainfall.

Visitors/Marine Traffic: 

• Greg visited today with some supplies. Thanks Greg!
• Since it has been so windy, there has been very little boat traffic. Yesterday we saw one small pleasure craft playing in the waves near Pedder Bay, and one coastguard ship passed by earlier today. A few small vessels and fishing boats passed by but no vessels entered the reserve.

Ecological:

• Animal activity has been very quiet due to our stormy weather
• The geese seem to be moving on now- there are fewer every day.
• There are not many more seagull nests beginning but the seagulls have chosen their nesting locations and are defending them from other breeding pairs.
• There is one sea lion who has been coming onto the jetty and does not move away from us as the others do. We believe this is the same one that we observed last year who seemed to have a propeller injury on his head. It’s interesting that he has been able to survive with seemingly quite a bit of behavioral impact due to the head trauma.