Weather

• Visibility: clear, 15 miles throughout the day
• Wind: 23-28 knots SW this morning, died down by noon
• Sky: mostly sunny with some clouds
• Water: rough this morning with 1 meter swells then calmed down throughout the day

Boats/Visitors

• Lots of commercial vessels including a large logging barge
• No visitors today

Ecological

• The male elephant seals continue to fight for dominance. Didn’t notice the smallest of the original 5 around today after he lost a fight yesterday against another adolescent. The winner of that fight got into it with one of the two large males and is still around but has some fresh wounds.
• Still one elephant seal pup here that has taken a liking to sleeping on the doorstep of my house!

A tug pulls a huge logging barge by Race Rocks Island

Family photo!

Huge logging barge being towed by a tug passing by Race Rocks.

Fresh battle wounds after facing a much larger male than himself.