Mostly just whale watchers and other boats cruising by on this beautiful sunny day
Ecological
plenty of sea lions around but not as many as I thought there would be
Notes
DnD was blasting again today
I finally have a full fresh water tank so hopefully it rains soon so I can start pressure washing and cleaning the pathways and buildings off
Significantly less sea lions I expected I suspect many of them went for swim while I was doing the census because it was a rather hot day today but here are the numbers are I have right now
Visibility: Started off at 10 miles but closed in to the point the fog horn was going off for a good part of the morning and then a sunny break this afternoon and back to pretty cloudy now
Wind: 10-15 W this morning picked up to above 30, same direction
Sky: pretty cloudy with a little break in the afternoon
Water: pretty flat but the current is very visible and moving
Boats/Visitors
A few ecotours today
Ecological
plenty of sea lions, not really seeing elephant seals, also there was about 26 of these birds I will post a picture of but I wasn’t what bird it was, will look into it.
Census
Stellar Sea Lions: 176
California Sea Lions: 153
Elephant Seals: 0
Harbour Seals: 24
Unspecified Gulls: 212
Pigeon Guillemots: 0
Cormorants: 18
Canada Geese: 8
Oystercatchers: 8
Harlequinn Ducks: 0
Crows: 0
Unspecified bird: 26
Notes
Have not spotted the river otters again
Sea lions refused to budge when I went to get the water sample, I gave up and found a way around the one that would not move
They somehow dragged a ladder down the jetty so I had a tough time retrieving that because the ladder was attached to a rope that got wrapped around a rock, I managed to bring it up behind the boat shed, also the boat shed door looks to be in pretty rough shape the sea lions are always piled up against it
