Water: Some swells this morning, now its more choppy but under a metre
Boats/Visitors
A team from DFO and the aquarium came out yesterday to try help out a couple of the neckbanded sea lions, the sea lions were uncooperative and left before the team got here, so hopefully next week the sea lions will be where we want them to be there is one here with fishing line around his head and it looks awful, i hope we can help him soon
An advisee group is here for the night with their advisor Clint
also the electrician came today, hopefully get that automatic start on the generator soon
Maintenance
Ran the desalinator a bit but its still not operating very well, makes less water in a longer amount of time
would like to do more pressure washing but need to be able to replace the water being used
Ecological
Sea lions are still slowly making their way out
There were quite a few oyster catchers around today
Ravens and eagles around as well
Also a single snow bunting has been hanging around
the past week was CAS week at the college so I had two groups of students drop by, the first group were marine scientists that came for 5 days and helped out with cleaning up garbage, collecting driftwood, doing a daily census and stuff like that
the second group were divers that unfortunately did not get to dive while they were here but have been diving around race rocks before, they stayed for two nights
Maintenance
What a week, the fence had to be repaired quite a bit, the students helped me with it one day, and I did not properly show them how to repair the fence so the wire ended up being grounded which the sea lions took full advantage of and completely messed up the fence
The electric pump in the crane house is working but is kind of slow going, it also takes a lot of priming
the fire pump is out of commission at the moment, there were a lot fo issues with it probably due to the fact it is not a saltwater pump and has been sitting by the ocean for 3 years
the desalinator is not cooperating either, it will work for maybe an hour before it shuts itself off, I can restart it but again it will only run for another hour and only desalinates half the water it used to in the same amount of time
Ecological
I personally have seen about 8 humpback whales a day for the past week
there was also a pod of about 6 killerhwhales that one of the students saw from the lighthouse which we found out later were transients and were actually hunting sea lions
There have also been some interesting birds around, there was a robin here, which I don’t typically see and there was also a snow goose, which I personally have never seen here before, its been hanging out with the Canada geese other birds include oyster catchers, killdeer, ravens, and eagles
the neck banded sea lions seem to come and go, they are very difficult to keep track of, I believe there are two at the moment and I see them about once a week, since there are over 1000 sea lions at the moment they easily get lost in the crowd, even the group of students I had here only saw them once
Refulled the generator but the fence hasnt needed any fixing lately and I’m being more careful with the water until we get more rain so I haven’t been pressure washing as much lately
Ecological
An elephant seal is here, nice to see one around, not sure when more will be showing up
Two sea lions with garbage on their neck, will report it and hopefully see if we can get someone out here to take the garbage off of them soon
