Take a Seaplane from Vancouver to Victoria in British Columbia

Unusual winds and choppy seas cancelled our early morning boat ride from Vancouver to Victoria in British Columbia.

We quickly booked a seaplane for an airborne adventure!

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 The flight was great! And the view superb!

This is a quick shot of the cockpit warning bar.
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Train Crossing in Illinois - Listen to August 
Listen to the Rocky Surf - Glacier Bay, Southeast Alaska
Mongolia - Wind Across the Gobi (Mongolian lizards, snake, and human culture)
Catch a View and Catch a Pike, Squanga Lake, Yukon, Canada

Swim Up a Salmon Ladder! Coho at Capilano Salmon Hatchery, Vancouver, BC

Swim Up a Salmon Ladder!

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Coho salmon swim up the salmon ladder back to the gravel beds  where they hatched.

 

The Capilano River in North Vancouver, British Columbia was dammed in 1954.  

Cleveland Dam blocks Capilano Lake for hydro power and fresh drinking water. This blocked the spawning ground stream beds for the native salmon.

Below is the first small dam to divert the salmon to the ladder.

It's really cool to see the salmon as they make their way upstream!

See the {above} "ladder step" to the left?

Capilano River Salmon Hatchery, 4500 Capilano Road, North Vancouver, B.C. Canada V7R 4L3

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Longest Day of the Year - Glacier Bay, Southeast Alaska 

(small marine fish chased by predator)
Catch a View and Catch a Pike, Squanga Lake, Yukon, Canada 
Floating the Outlet Stream - Squanga Lake, Yukon, Canada (arctic grayling)
Australian Great Barrier Reef Swim

 (parrot fish, zebra fish, giant clams, coral

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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Floating the Outlet Stream - Squanga Lake, Yukon, Canada (arctic grayling) 
  Listen to the Rocky Surf - Glacier Bay, Southeast Alaska

Swim along with the Canada Geese - Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. Canada

Swim with us and the Canada Geese - in Canada!

We took a stroll bird watching through Stanley Park which is on the edge of downtown Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.

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We had joggers, walkers and these swimmers for quiet company.

This flotilla of Canada geese! (Branta canadensis)
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Sea Birds on Great Barrier Reef, Michaelmas Cay, Queensland, Australia 

Band-tailed Pigeons Take over FeederWatch
Discover L.A. River at Sepulveda Basin (red-tailed hawk, Canada geese, American wigeon)

Australia (azure, little, & forest kingfishers, brolga, white-bellied sea eagle, & saltwater crocodile)