What a beautiful day. Any day on the water viewing marine life is a gorgeous day. We were up in the Strait of Georgia viewing T65As near Heather & Raptor, a pair of Humpback Whales.
We viewed Black Oystercatchers, Bald Eagles, Rhinoceros Auklet, and other sea birds. One of the black oystercatchers was banded on both legs. Meaning some researcher somewhere is studying them. I don’t know if which researchers would be interested but I will try to let the right people know. As a result maybe we can learn more of what a healthy ecosystem looks like. One thing I am convinced of, every time we humans think we have a better answer, we mess it up. A young harbor seal was looking our way thinking “what are you going to do”.
We viewed Heather and Raptor for a while and I was photographing some fluke shots. Heather is one of the easiest humpback whales to identify. If you see the underside of her fluke anyway. She has an “H” that is a natural marking on the left fluke. As a result, she was given a name starting with H as a result.
The T65As made a couple kills and we would watch them milling around as they had dinner. The seagulls would be diving to grab bits of left over blubber and small chunks of meat.
Patos Island Lighthouse and our skies were beautiful this evening. Our time with T65As Near Heather & Raptor was special for my guests making memories to hang on to. A couple of cool cloud and water reflections to share the beauty we were seeing live. This so that everyone reading this and viewing the pics can get a taste of what we were seeing live.
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