The Beach House at Deep Bay

10/11/2024

October 10, 2024

07/10/2024

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07/09/2024

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It’s been a minute since I’ve shared some of the fantastic reviews we receive…we really do get the BEST guests🙏🌊😎
‘Sea’ what people are loving about their experience at The Beach House☀️🌊🚣🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️⛱️🐋🦀🦅

07/06/2024

06/29/2024

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06/13/2024

06/09/2024

Wow…humpback or grey whale by the Marina🙏
Photo credit to Martin L Martens

05/01/2024

Let the beach days begin😎🦅🐋🦭🦀☀️🌊

04/18/2024

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02/22/2024

Some exciting news: The Marine Stewardship Initiative, Boat Survey Team was out on the water today and found the first recorded herring spawn of 2024 in Atl'ka7tsem (Howe Sound). The spawn was not very dense, and was visible at low tide south of the ferry terminals!

02/17/2024

02/14/2024

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02/10/2024

Early signs! North Island

02/01/2024

Hoping for another great year of sightings…maybe again right here in Deep Bay🤞

Here is our 2023 Bigg's killer whale Salish Sea sightings map! Each color represents a different season with the size of the dot indicating the relative group size.

The 1413 sightings we documented (defined as a unique group on a unique day) was yet another record, surpassing our previous record of 1220 set in 2022. To put into perspective just how much things have changed, especially for those newer to watching whales in the Salish Sea, this represents a more than 8-fold increase in sightings from just 10 years ago. 🤯

The answer to "when can I see Bigg's in the Salish Sea?" is now "almost anywhere at any time", but the seasonal peak in August and September first noted for Bigg's in the 1980s and 1990s still holds true: August had the greatest number of unique sightings at 200, and September had the greatest number of individual whales confirmed at 167. On the flip side, February was the lowest month for both.

Tomorrow we'll share another series of maps looking more at the seasonal differences, but we wanted to start with this annual take because it's pretty darn impressive!

Thanks as always to the dozens (if not hundreds) of community members who share reports, photos, and videos, that make this type of region-wide tracking possible. Our partners in this effort include Orca Network, the Pacific Whale Watch Association, Orcasound - Listen for Whales, and many of the regional Facebook sightings groups that have revolutionized the way we can track whales. And shout out too to our map wizard Tomis and communications intern Andoni who has been making these graphics for us!

02/01/2024

Don’t forget your shorts😉🌊🐚

01/26/2024

This👇🏻

01/23/2024

Looking forward to seeing what this season brings😊

As February approaches so does a new season of Herring Spawn Observations and Activities!

We are super excited to start getting in all your photos, videos, drawings and discussions on this spectacular annual life event on the West Coast. This page is successful because of you!

We will be posting real time observation and fisheries information, with as many imagery as we can get our hands on as it comes in. Email directly if images are too large: [email protected].

Reminders:

This page is to help us find spawn, so please indicate where you've seen it, time, date and any other information that will help our Indigenous Herring Coordinator and our partners.

Please be respectful of all aspects of the herring season; this means not putting anyone's perspectives or commercial interests down in a derogatory manner. Any disrespectful behaviour, language or spam will be removed immediately. And where applicable, blocking may occur.

01/18/2024

Frozen ocean

12/27/2023

Bring it on😎

12/25/2023

From our Island to yours…and our house to yours🎄

12/13/2023

Dec.12/23

07/23/2023

07/22/2023

Sunset cruise😎