October 31st

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  0-15 SE
  • Sky: a little cloudy but mostly clear throughout the day
  • Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

  • Had Kyle deliver some fuel today and there were plenty of ecotours cruising by

Ecological

  • the usual sea lions and elephant seals and planty of humpbacks around

Notes

  • the sea lions seem to be leaving more everyday

Another Beautiful Day

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  0-15 SE
  • Sky: pretty clear throughout the day
  • Water: waves this morning, about 1 metre

Boats/Visitors

  • Had quite a few ecotours cruise by today

Ecological

  • 3 elephant seals by the jetty and plenty of humpbacks around

 

Fog and Sun

Weather

  • Visibility: 0 Miles in the morning 15 the rest of the day
  • Wind:  0-10 SE
  • Sky: Foggy this morning, mostly clear the rest of the day
  • Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

  • Had quite a few ecotours cruise around today

Ecological

  • 2 elephant seals spotted today and 2 eagles on the outer rocks

Notes

  • Ran the desalinator and generator today, the freshwater tank is almost full

Beautiful Day

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  0-5 NE
  • Sky: clear all day
  • Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

  • Gorgeous weather means plenty of ecotours

Ecological

  • the elephant seal made another appearance today, there were humpbacks, sea lions, and eagles

Notes

  • power went out early this morning so I turned on the generator and gave the solar panels a scrub, so hopefully it doesn’t happen again

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

Census October 26th

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  0-15 SE
  • Sky: clear most of the day
  • Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

  • Had plenty of ecotours cruising by

Ecological

  • Not as many sea lions today, they might have peaked by now but last year they didn’t start leaving until mid november
  • there were a couple injured sea lions plus a dead one
  • only saw one elephant seal today but I’m sure the others are around
  • So many stellars, mostly on the outer rocks
  • there was also an eagle
  • haven’t seen the otter or any oyster catchers
  • also saw a few humpbacks out there (not included in census)

Notes

  • plenty of solar input today

Census

  • Stellar Sea Lions – 235
  • California Sea Lions – 421
  • Harbour Seals – 18
  • Elephant Seals – 1(seen) I’m sure there are at least 3 or 4 more around
  • Gulls (unspecified) – 456
  • Cormorants – 713
  • Black Turnstones – 22
  • Geese – 8
  • Eagle – 1

More Sunshine and Wind

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  between 10-30 NW was blowing more earlier today and settled down in the evening
  • Sky: cloudy this morning, cleared up in the afternoon
  • Water: a bit rough

Boats/Visitors

  • had some ecotours brave the wind and drive by

Ecological

  • plenty of sea lions around still and the few elephant seals

Notes

  • had a lot of good solar input today, plan on running the generator tomorrow though so I can run the desalinator for a few more hours

October 23rd

Weather

  • Visibility: 15 Miles
  • Wind:  10-15 NE
  • Sky: pretty cloudy most of the day
  • Water: calm

Boats/Visitors

  • Had some ecotours drive by

Ecological

  • so many sea lions
  • 5 elephant seals scattered around
  • a gull with a broken wing
  • and some california gulls around
  • also saw the eagle again today

Notes

  • go to run the desalinator for awhile today, its been difficult to get to with all the sea lions around

October 22nd

Weather

  • Visibility: 10 Miles
  • Wind:  15-30 NW
  • Sky: cloudy but there was some sunshine today
  • Water: pretty rough with wind and waves

Boats/Visitors

  • Had some ecotours go by

Ecological

  • plenty of sea lions around along with the 5 female elephant seals