The Next Hike

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Friday, July 2, 2010

Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 3rd July.
We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.

My photo this time is from the mid-week hike last Wednesday when we visited the north end of Davie Bay and stopped for lunch on the long beach that runs north from the UREP [designated area for the Use, Recreation and Enjoyment of the public]. The sea was quiet and it was quite a surprise to suddenly have a small pod of marine mammals not far out from the beach and right in front of us. They were swimming north quite slowly and I was not too sure what species we were seeing. I took some still photos and a short piece of movie of the them and It was only when I got home that I identified them as Pacific White-sided Dolphin. It's somewhat unusual for this species to be so slow moving, quiet and in such a small group. At least one may be a different species as the colour and shape of the dorsal fin looks quite different from the others, and I do know there is often a mix of species in a pod. How lucky we are to be having so many different
kinds of marine mammals so frequently present along the shores of Texada this year.
JD.

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