Whale Watching

Whale Watching

Today I woke up very early to work on my blog. And around 9:00 a.m. we went to Victoria Harbour for our whale watching tour.

The weather was great, and the harbour was very interesting, because there are floating houses alongside the dock. People actually live in these houses all year along. I had never seen float homes. 

What an interesting way to live. After listening to a short safety briefing, we boarded a beautiful catamaran and started our journey out to sea. We didn't just get to watch the whales, we also got to see a rare type of Puffin with a red beak which is almost extinct, lots of other seabirds like seagulls and cormorants, and a colony of stellar sea lions which are on the endangered species list. There was a HUGE male. We also spotted Mink whales, but they were too far away for us to observe them well. 

We spotted some Mink whales but they were too far away to observe very well.

Finally, after sailing for almost 1.5 hours through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, we found killer whales (Orcas) just across from Friday harbour. Although we got some good footage by using the zoom on Miss Smith's (Mimi’s) camera, we never got closer than 215m meters from them. 

This was due to ecological regulations that protect the Orcas from tourists or being hit by boats. So, we are hoping to see whales when we go bear watching in Tofino, because we will be taking another boat out to sea as well there. 

All in all, it was a great day, even though we were all a bit tired and still jet lagged. Luckily for us, Mimi sent us to bed very very early about 8 p.m, so that we could get a good ten hours of sleep! But by the time everyone had their showers, it was about 9 p.m. before we fell asleep, but we did manage to go 9 hours of sleep before we had to wake to up and head to Sooke for Ziplining and hiking in a Temperate Rainforest.

What an amazing country!

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