We meet at the Canadian Legion in Van Anda at 10:00am.
Last week we hiked south near Favada Point on the north-west coast of Texada Island and had lunch on a high cliff at Arbutus Arch. As we walked back along the shoreline bluffs a group of five or six Biggs Transient Orcas were headed south quite close inshore. Soon after passing us they started to mill around and began to rush about quickly diving and surfacing and for a few minutes it was not clear what was happening. However, I shot some video and it was only much later on at home when viewing it on the computer that I realised I had recorded a sequence that included an attack on a lone California Sealion. At the end of the hike we visited the beach south of Maple Bay and enjoyed watching the antics of a large number of Steller and California Sealions, some in the water and some on the rocks basking in the sun. Both species are pretty noisy with the massive Steller males being the loudest by far I would say.
JD.
Four adult Orcas in a row near Favada Point. This is a frame from a video I took of their unusual behaviour.
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