If you see something out of the ordinary out there, you’ll now know what it is.
A massive fin whale cruised up the Strait of Georgia to Johnstone Strait this week for the first time in recorded history. “It was photographed off Campbell River and off Nanaimo. It is the first confirmed sighting of a fin whale in Georgia Strait,” said Jared Towers, a Fisheries and Oceans cetacean research technician who has spent the summer doing photo identification of the growing number of fin whales in Hecate Strait and Caamano Sound. Judith Lavoir reports.
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Rare+whale+surfaces+Strait+Georgia/7278430/story.html
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