Third Time Lucky

18/06/15

The past few days have been pretty busy so we decided to have a lazy morning. After a late breakfast and some general lazing around we headed back to Telegraph Cove to go whale watching. We were a bit early so decided to check out the Whale Interpretive Centre which is a fairly basic but really interesting museum. There are lots of skeletons, some of which have very interesting origins; a huge humpback whale skeleton has arrived at the centre after being killed by a cruise ship and they even have the jaws of a blue whale that was killed by whalers.

Thankfully it wasn’t all doom and gloom and when we’d had enough of looking at dead animals, we joined the Stubbs Island Whale Watching tour and set off to find something alive. It wasn’t long before we caught our first glimpse of some wildlife - this little rascal was quite happy hopping along the boardwalk and picking up the fisherman’s scraps! I know we already have a pet seagull but what are the chances Esther would say yes to an eagle? 

Once we were out on the open water we started seeing lots of wildlife – we came across a large group of dolphins and according to the captain it’s quite rare to see that many, especially as they were playing and not hunting. We also saw an eagle feeding frenzy. There must have been over 30 eagles, all swooping down to the water and grabbing handfuls (clawfuls? talonfuls?) of fish.

As we were on a whale watching tour I was quite pleased when we saw not one but two humpback whales. They got really close to the boat and even did a few dives which showed off their tails nicely. Unfortunatly we didn’t see a killer whale – it’s still really early in the season for them but as we saw some yesterday I wasn’t too bothered – there’s only so much luck to go around and I was just happy to see them once!

After a really interesting and quite upsetting talk from the environmentalist on the damage we are doing to our sea life, we headed back to Telegraph Cove, got some burgers and fries and then drove back to our B&B. On the way back I saw a black bear – Rory didn’t so it’s a bit of a sore spot! We spent the evening relaxing and watching the sun set one last time. We even had a little friend show up. She was quite happy grazing a few feet away while we sat on the patio and she stayed just outside the window for most of the night. We’ll be really sad to leave but maybe one day I’ll come back!