 Info about Vancouver Island and Inside passage
"AleSap" <A.Sapone78@libero.it> wrote in message
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> Hi to all,
> I'm a italian photographer that would do a trip in vancouver island
> and rockies to take wildlife and landscape pictures .
>
> I've only 16days available and I think to spend 4 days on Vancouver
> Isl. and 4 days on the nat. parks.
>
> I would to know where are the best places in vancuver island to shoot
> a Eagle and "white whales" (you call them "assassins whale"?) and the
> most beatuful places to landscape.
>
You will find eagles in all areas of the British Columbia coast at this
time of year. They sit on their favourite trees to watch for migrating
fish, especially salmon. You will need a long lens! (Unless, of
course, you are eating breakfast on the balcony of the Crest Hotel in
Prince Rupert, where I have been watched by eagles less than 20 metres
away.) There are also many other species of sea and shore birds
everywhere.
But you won't find "white" whales anywhere outside the Vancouver
Aquarium. They are properly called Beluga whales, and are found only in
the Arctic. What you will see are "killer whales", properly called
"orcas".
Orcas live and travel in large groups called "pods", composed of several
family groupings. They are very active in Georgia Strait (between
Vancouver Island and the mainland) in summer, and can often be seen from
the public ferries that cross the Strait every hour.
There are also a number of "whale watching" companies that work out of
Victoria and Vancouver (and its southern suburbs). They are not
inexpensive, and they may not find whales on every trip, but an ocean
excursion is never wasted time. Their primary goal is to find orcas.
At Tofino, they are also looking for "Gray" whales.
> In detail I would know if the area from Tofino to Port Hardy is
> important and deserve a stop (i think around Campbell river) or is
> egual (or not different) to the Tofino/Ucluelet area.
Another active area for whale watching is around Port Hardy / Port
McNeil / Telegraph Cove on northern Vancouver Island near Johnstone
Strait. Orcas are commonly seen there in summer, as well as Humpback
whales and the smaller Minke whales.
You can also see other aquatic mammals such as seals, sea lions, otters,
dolphins and porpoises all along the coast.
You will have enough time to visit both Tofino / Ucluelet and Campbell
River / Port Hardy on your trip. Just take one day off your planned
Tofino visit, and add it to the other coast.
And YES, you should take the Inside Passage trip to Prince Rupert; it is
an experience you will never forget.
Hope this helps!
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