September 14, 2006

What wonderful weather! The Weather Man said it was going to be very yucky, but we had beautiful sunshine and flat calm waters! This morning we went for a trip out around the southern most point of Vancouver Island and traveled all the way to Sheringham Point. e had some fun rollers to play in and after we turned around at Sheringham, we were "surfing" the rollers as we drove with them. Unfortunately, my whale telepathy was not working this morning and they did not come to my silent urgings, but we did stop off at Race Rocks to see the sea lions and seals, which were as amusing as ever. Despite the fact that we did not see whales, we couldn't have had a more beautiful morning!

This afternoon's tours were fantastic! Soon after we got back from our morning trip we had reports of transient orcas traveling towards the waterfront of Victoria Harbor. We traveled for only about 15 minutes and came across a group of about 10 transients (quite a big group for transients) that were traveling slowly towards Race Rocks. I became very excited at the prospect of carnage at Race Rocks (especially when we saw some harbor porpoise in the area), but to the relief of the passengers they were very peaceful and no blood was shed. After the whales had passed Race Rocks, we went and visited with the sea lions and seals for a while and started to head back towards the harbor where there were more transients! We came across a group of at least 15 and they looked to be a little bit more active then the last group, but still no carnage. All in all it was an incredible trip and we were able to see more transients in one area than our driver has ever seen!