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Showing posts with label pacific ocean. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Take a Trip out of Victoria Harbour - in A Zodiac - to visit local residents: ORCA

On a beautiful, sunny July afternoon, we donned orange cold weather suits.
 

Why?
To take a zodiac trip across choppy waters to visit some special local residents.


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Whale watching for  Orcinus orca (killer whales)!
 These resident orcas are fish eaters – They are salmon specialists. About 80% of their diet is Chinook salmon. 


The orcas that visit the waters surrounding San Juan Island are known as the Southern Resident Killer Whales.
The males like this one,
are much bigger than the females, 
and have a larger and more developed dorsal fin.
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Catch a View and Catch a Pike, Squanga Lake, Yukon, Canada 

Birds and Marine Mammals of CA Channel Islands (long & short-beaked common dolphin, blue & fin whale) 
Sea Birds on Great Barrier Reef, Michaelmas Cay, Queensland, Australia
Plunge into a California Tide Pool (sea stars, swell shark, sea cucumber, garibaldi fish)  
 
 

Friday, July 29, 2016

Swim with the Spotted Jellies!

What is swimming in a circle?
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The Spotted Jelly - Mastigias papua at the Vancouver Aquarium!
Their brown color is from algae that live symbiotically inside their tissues. 
 
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