Wednesday, April 23

Our guests and crew had another great day out on the water. We started our search for wildlife by heading east out of the Victoria Harbour. We quickly meet up with some amazing harbour seals hauled out on the rock surrounding Trial Island. We were happy to see a variety of young and old, ranging from newborns (25 lbs, 2.5 feet in length) to mature males and females (300+ lbs, 5.5 feet in length). All the while enjoying the beautiful view of the 100 year old light house that marks the most southern tip of the island.

From here we headed off shore in search of any other marine life we could find. This brought us to a marine park south west of Victoria's harbour, known as Race Rocks. It too has a large light house (lite in 1860) but even more spectacular was the abundance of marine life found here. We were able to view California Sealions (1000lbs), Stellar Sealions (2000lbs) and the amazing Elephant Seal (5000lbs) in their natural habitat as they lay in the sun anf fish in the bull kelp rich waters. We were even able to get a great look at an immature Bald Eagle as it perch its molted brown body with its early stages of white head feathers while over looking the waters in search of a big fish for lunch.

All in all another successful day of wildlife viewing in the waters surrounding the sounthern tip of Vancouver Island.