Weather

• Visibility: 15 miles
• Wind: 15-35 knots West
• Water: 2′ chop
• Sky: Overcast with showers, cleared up in the late evening

Ecological

• The broken Canada Goose eggs from last night were still on the grass.
• 13 elephant seals on Great Race.
• 5 on Middle Rock.
• The elephant seals just outside the house were in a frenzy all morning.
• Some of them play fought for hours, whilst others tried to mate.
• Inevitably they all ended up in a big pile of flailing bodies.
• Saw an injured California sea lion on the derrick rocks.
• It appears as though it had part of a flipper torn off.
• Boat motor or predator?
• There was a tiny harbour seal on the east part of Great Race.
• It was farther from water then I had ever seen one.

Maintenance

• Ran the desalinator.
• Again unfavourable conditions to run the fire pump.

Boats

• No boats in the reserve.
• A couple sail boats farther out.