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Rated #1 Whale Watching Tour in Victoria by Tripadvisor since 2007! Lead partner in the award-winning Exploring the Salish Sea education program.
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From our family to yours, wishing you a joyous holiday season!

📷 Carol Limido Photography

#Wild4Whales #HappyHolidays #MerryChristmas #TisTheSeason
December 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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We thought we’d throw this humpback breach into the mix. Because we can never see too many breaches, right?
Sierra Hamilton Photography
#Wild4Whales #ExploringTheSalishSea
December 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Wheeee, I feel like doing a headstand! This is one of the members of the T252 family. We’re not sure which one. What we are sure of is that it’s a girl. The black and white pattern in the ventral area gives it away!
Sierra Hamilton Photography
#Wild4Whales #Headstand #SalishSea
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Guess which way the wind was blowing! On a blustery day, all the birds at Race Rocks—including these bald eagles—face into the wind! The bird on the left is a juvenile and won’t get the iconic white head and tail for a few more years.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Somehow harbour seals make lying on barnacle-encrusted rock look comfortable! Must be all that extra padding!
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#Wild4Whales #MeetTheLocals #RockSausage
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The tall blow of a humpback whale lights up in the late afternoon sun. When a humpback breathes it exchanges up to 90% of its lung capacity, compared to 10-15% for humans!
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#Wild4Whales #Exhale #JustBreathe
December 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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A long telephoto lens makes the cone-shaped peak of Washington State’s Mt. Baker look a lot closer to Race Rocks than it is. They’re more than 240 km apart!
Selena Rhodes Scofield Photography
#Wild4Whales #SalishSea
December 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Forget synchronized swimming. This is synchronized lunge-feeding! Both of these humpbacks are surfacing on their side, mouths wide open to scoop in food!
Sierra Hamilton Photography
#Wild4Whales #Synchro #OpenWide
December 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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A gull comes away with a big prize—an adult herring—during a large baitball feeding frenzy. As part of our research program, we document these encounters. The data is used by local conservation groups to monitor herring movements and abundance in the region.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Humpback Volta (BCX1805) was seen with a calf in Mexico last winter but there was none present when she was in the Salish Sea this fall. It’s not necessarily a bad sign; the two may have naturally parted ways as mother-calves do at this time of year.
Shorelines Photography
#Wild4Whales #FlukesUp
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Set against a backdrop of the cloud-shrouded Olympic mountains, humpbacks Monarch (BCZ0180) and Zillion (BCX1876) sleepily make their way east. Most of the humpbacks we’re seeing these days are male-female pairs like this one.
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#Wild4Whales #PNW #SalishSea
December 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Like clockwork, members of the T252 family of outer coast Bigg’s visit our area in the winter months. Here we have (dorsals, L to R): adult female T250, six-year-old T253A, three-year-old T250D and adult male T251.
Sierra Hamilton Photography
#Wild4Whales #TopPredator #Orca
December 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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This resting sea otter gives us a great look at his paddle-shaped hind flippers. The toes are arranged differently than human toes—their longest digits are on the outside. This design makes them strong and agile swimmers, but very clumsy on land!
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December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The photo ops aren’t necessarily over when we head for our dock at the end of the day. We ended our adventure with this stunning Salish Sea sunset over Victoria’s outer harbour!
Shorelines Photography
#Wild4Whales #Sunset
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The 2025 calf of Elf (BCX1728) has obviously had a tough first year. It’s unclear whether the fluke damage and scarring is due to a past entanglement or a killer whale encounter, or both. The good news is that the calf is spunky and so far, still with mom!
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December 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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This sideways lunge gives us a great look at the brush-like baleen plates hanging from the roof of a humpback’s mouth. Next, the massive tongue will squeeze the water out through the plates, and presto, instant humpback dinner!
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#Wild4Whales #OpenWide
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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A “new” sea otter seems to have taken up residence at Race Rocks. It lacks Ollie’s distinctive nose scar. When last seen, Ollie was enjoying himself in a new neighbourhood not far from Race.
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#Wild4Whales #SeaOtter
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Here are three generations of the T036A family. Matriarch Leland (T036A) is slightly in the lead, flanked by her 13yo daughter Kailas (T036A2) with her first calf, T036A2A, bopping up in between them. The calf is less than two months old!
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December 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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A humpback opens its huge mouth to scoop in a massive gulp of food and water. Humpbacks can open their jaws to an almost 90-degree angle!
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#Wild4Whales #OpenWide #SalishSea
December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Here we are at the final session of the award-winning "Exploring the Salish Sea" education program - the Celebration of Learning!

#exploringthesalishsea #handsonlearning #oceanambassadors #wild4whales
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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These are all male California sea lions. We can tell from the punk-like bump on their foreheads. This is known as a sagittal crest. The crest has no apparent purpose, other than to signal sexual maturity to other California sea lions!
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#Wild4Whales #SeaLion
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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While exploring the waters west of Race Rocks we encountered this handsome fellow—Sequoia (T030A). His usual travel companion, sister Salix (T030C), was nearby along with sister Lyra (T030B) and her three kids.
Shorelines Photography
#Wild4Whales #ExploreBC #Orca
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Why lunge-feed on your own when you can do it with a friend? We’re not sure which is which here, but this is Divot (BCX1057) and Manta (BCZ0155) scooping what we think was krill into their enormous mouths!
Ryleigh Whitfield Photography
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December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Humpback Manta (BCZ0155) cartwheels between feeding lunges, accompanied by female Divot. Most of the humpbacks we’re seeing now are female/male pairs as the whales get themselves into the mood for the breeding season in Mexico or Hawaii!
Shorelines Photography
#Wild4Whales
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A female Bigg’s killer whale known as Salix (T030C) spyhops to take a quick look around. Her brother and sister were further to the south, so perhaps she was doing a quick scan for them!
Shorelines Photography
#Wild4Whales #KillerWhale #Spyhop
December 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM