We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
Last week we drove north from Van Anda and parked where people park for swimming at the quarry. We started by walking north up the hill and then turned off onto the right of way leading to the Rogers cell phone tower. Just as you reach the tower there is an old partly overgrown logging road that leads down through the forest and joins with a network of mixed good and poor logging roads that extend north and south in this part of the island. It was a lovely day and we wandered around, visiting a clump of the uncommon Douglas Maple and viewing many clusters of the rare in Canada Giant Chain Fern. They always look very shabby this early in the summer so I didn't bother to photogarph them for this email.
The week before last on our visit to the area south of Favada Point where we were lucky enough to see a pod of Orcas close to the shore I photographed an adult Bald Eagle that seemed very much more tame then is usual with this species. It didn't bother to look at us at first even though we were making quite a lot of noise not far away. When it did turn to look our way I got this nice shot, but then it turned back again to concentrate on what was happening out to sea. I'm not sure there were any Orcas around at that time, but we did see a pod just after we finished lunch and that turned out to be quite a memorable experience.
At the time we were walking along grassy bluffs above some high cliffs and the Orca were close to the shore, heading south in clear view. I made videos of the activity going on below us and an edited version is online at this website:—
Scroll down to 25 April to read my report on the sighting, and click on the image above that note to view an edited version of my video. Without realising it at the time I had filmed the killing of a California Sea Lion.
Mich also has some of her photos on the same website at this archive location:—
Scroll down to "TRANSIENT BIGGS ORCA" and her photos of the same Orcas are below her report dated 25 April, 1.30 to 2.00pm
JD.
A relatively tame adult Bald Eagle on a cliff top tree not far south of Cabin Cove, north-west coast of Texada Island.
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