Northern Resident
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Seeing Whales in Telegraph Cove! – 24/8/24
Sara So, we decided to go to the northern part of Vancouver Island, to a small community called Telegraph Cove. It is in a well-known or near a well-known whale area, sort of near Port McNeill, Port Hardy, and it’s just north of the Johnston strait where the Robson Bight Michael Biggs Ecological Reserve is,…
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Northern Resident’s at a Rubbing Beach
We were on our boat the Skana to do a survey of the area, gathering data We headed out into Hecate Strait, it happened to be a beautiful day, even before we dropped the hydrophone (which we often do) in front of us some whales appeared. We were kind of surprised as we hadn’t heard…
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An Incredible Encounter with Dolphins and Porpoises – 9/16
We were spending a couple days we had been lucky enough to see Northern Resident Killer Whales, Bigg’s, Dall’s Porpoises, Humpbacks, seals and sea lions. Also, while we were there, roughly 350 Pacific White-Sided Dolphins (also known as Lags) were rampaging up and down the island squalling, harassing Humpbacks, hanging out with the Northern Residents.…
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A Successful Northern Resident Killer Whale Watching Trip! – 28/7/21
I was on a kayak trip based out of Telegraph Cove, and we were camping right by the entrance to Blackney Pass. It was the last night, and two of us (me and one other person) were getting kind of anxious because it was Northern Resident killer whale season, but we hadn’t seen any. We…
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Killer Whales at a Rubbing Beach! – 08/19
Last year in mid August we were at our family cabin on Savary Island at the Northern end of the Sunshine Coast, just at the entrance to Desolation Sound. We see a great deal of marine life when we are up there. On this day we were sitting on the beach during a really low…