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Ocean Magic Marine Wildlife Adventure April 22 12:15

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Capt. Scott slipped the Ocean Magic out of Victoria’s inner harbor and out into a spectacular afternoon. The sun was shining and the waters calm, our search took us east past Trial Island and on to Hein Bank. Here Capt. Scott put us in excellent position to view Minke Whales. These gentle giants were feeding in the shallow water, breaking the surface for a quick breath. The water was alive with sea birds, picking off the abundant supply of feed. Mika and Liz filled our passengers with information and answered many questions on our marine adventure. Our trip then took us to Whale Rock where we saw Stellar Sea Lions, Harbor Seals, Bald Eagles, Cormorants and Rhinoceros Auklets. The water was alive with wildlife and our crew made sure we took it all in, a truly great afternoon on the water with Prince of Whales! Clint “Orcawizard”

Ocean Magic Adventure April 9 2011

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The thing about wild life viewing is you don’t know what you’re going to find. This means that once in a while we do not find any killer whales or other cetaceans on our trip. Today was one of those days. However, that being said, one can still really enjoy the adventure while finding other kinds of wildlife – which there is plenty of out there. That is what makes our pacific coast so amazing. We were the first whale watching boat out today so we went in search of killer whales on the way to Race Rocks ecological reserve. Upon arriving there, we found approximately 6 Elephant seals and 2 Stellar sealions not to mention tons of harbour seals hauled out on the rocks. There was a huge gathering of Pelagic Cormorants on one of the rocks as well. We then headed east through Juan de Fuca Strait  towards San Juan Island – the typical feeding grounds of the southern resident killer whales. We did not find any orca so we looped around to Discovery Island near Oak Bay in Victoria to take a look at the preserved beauty. Passengers were thrilled to see a Great Blue Heron, 2 eagles and other birds such as Common Murres and Harlequin Ducks. The Ocean Magic crew did a wonderful job searching the pacific giving tourists the sometimes difficult glimpse into looking for cetaceans. We’re reminded that we’re out in nature, and that itself is perfect in which ever way you encounter it.

Lots of New Updates!

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Greetings blog readers! We thought we’d take a moment to update you on some of the new things on the website; A new promotional slide show – located on our main page you will see the animated feature box highlighting some new goodies such as the Prince of Whales colouring contest and Holiday Gift Certificates.
  • A new clip on B-Roll for 2010 including larger preview views and download for media use (request for password)
  • New tour videos on all pages
  • Vimeo & Youtube updated with additional videos
  • Vimeo videos updated on the blog widget – video highlights
  • Youtube playlists updated to making finding videos easier by topic
  • Newly updated flash slide show layout with new updated images and featured on the blog right side (also featured on the promotional slider)
  • Groupings of images on flickr under subject heading for better searching
In addition, we are currently also updating our galleries which are located on the top of all of our tour pages. We hope you enjoy all the new content! Let’s also welcome our new blog member, naturalist, operational and sales manager the lovely Leshell!! DON’T FORGET TO SEND IN THOSE AWESOME DRAWINGS TO WIN A WHALE WATCHING TRIP!

Ocean Magic Adventure Oct 7 12:15

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Today the ocean magic set out in search of orca. On route to San Juan Island, we crossed several groups of harbour porpoises. These are small grey cetaceans who resemble a small dolphin. We arrived at Hein Bank where we observed a Minke whale which is a baleen whale about 30 feet in length. The animal was milling about and seemed to be in a feeding mode. We carried on to the Lime Kiln park area of San Juan Island where we observed members of Jpod and Lpod heading south. I noticed Ruffles (J1) traveling alone along the shoreline, I wonder if those people at Lime Kiln got a good look at him. Passengers on board got a good look at a few large males including; Gaia (L78) and Blackberry (J27) amongst other orcas such as Wave walker (L88). Thanks to Marie who had her orca chart with her today and was able to ID some of the animals we observed. It’s pretty awesome to see the orcas hanging around their favorite stomping grounds in October, hope we have many more days with them this year :)

Zodiac Wildlife Adventure Oct 3 1pm

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With Skipper James at the controls, the 1pm Zodiac this Sunday afternoon decided to go for the long haul and headed east and then north up Haro Strait where reports of Southern Resident Orca were in bound from East Point at Saturna Island. It was a beautifully calm trip with sightings of Dall’s Porpoise along our route. A pretty spinnaker sailboat caught our attention as we passed the picturesque scenery of the Gulf Islands.We were thrilled to find members of J and K Pods traveling the choppy waters of Boundary Pass. They were frolicking together with many tactile behaviours. We were able to identify, J 27 and J 26 as well as K 25, K21 and K 40. One even breached for us. Although we didn’t see the sunshine until once back in the harbour, our trip was full of exciting looks at these magical creatures as well as the Ferry, ‘COHO’ that travels to Port Angeles, across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Norwegian Pearl, cruise ship,moored at the harbour for the last time this season. It was another awesome trip in these rich, cold waters of the west coast . Marie, Orca-Magic.