Tuesday, April 14, 2009 JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT, OAK BAY & DISCOVERY ISLAND
On a beautiful, sunny day Five Star Whale Watching completed an arch across Juan de Fuca Strait off the Victoria, B.C. waterfront. We traveled from Victoria heading South West to Race Rocks Marine Protected Area, and then East past Constance Bank to Discovery & Chatham Islands just South of Oak Bay.
Passengers saw an Adult Bald Eagle perched on the top of the Discovery Island Lighthouse at Seabird Point, some Harbour Seals hauled out at the Chain Islets and, in the distance to the South, Hurricane Ridge of the magnificent Olympic Mountain Range in North Western Washington State.
Special treats were a Steller Sea Lion at Brim Rock, just South of Seabird Point,an unusual place for a Sea Lion; and a close "fly-by" of a Rhinoceros Auklet, so called because the Male of the species gets a "horn" on it's beak during Mating Season.
Photos by Ron Bates of Marine Mammal Research Group (MMRG)
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