Earth Ocean Adventures

06/18/2024

Reminder

04/02/2024

Orcas in the Esquimalt Harbour
Still in the Harbour. Best viewing location ~ Lagoon to see them come out or Saxe Point Park"

Info from Comox Valley Wildlife Sightings

03/17/2024

Happy St. Patty's Day to all my Friends and Family! May you all have the luck of the 4 leaf clover! The many hours I spent as a child searching for 4 leaf clovers with my friends! Don't stop believin'...💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚☘️💚 🍻

03/10/2024

3 orca Spieden Channel. Slow-moving westerly.

03/03/2024

02/19/2024

In case you wondered how to tell them apart.
Artist credit: credit Marcie Callewaert

02/14/2024

02/02/2024

Rainbow 🫶🌈🫶

01/16/2024

A magical moment where time seems to briefly stop 🥰🌇

01/10/2024

Crazy clouds heading my way ☁️🌧☁️🌨☁️

01/08/2024

https://fb.watch/ps5Ygst8S8/

01/07/2024

01/07/2024

What say you?

01/07/2024

Did you know humpback whales create ‘bubble nets’ to snare their prey?🐋🐋🐋Bubble Net Feeding

01/01/2024

Happy New Year my Friends! It's a New Year. A fresh beginning for us all. Wishing you all love and light for 2024 💖 💫 ✌️

12/27/2023

Lunge Feeding:
When humpback whales are lunge-feeding, they accelerate to high speeds and then open their mouths, creating drag and engulfing dense amounts of krill or small schooling fish. This happens both at depth and at the surface. Whales around Vancouver Island derived at least 50% of their energy from lunge-feeding on schools of one-year-old juvenile herring.

Photo Credit: Captain Jackie

12/27/2023

Hope you are all enjoying your holidays like this adorable Polar Bear!

12/27/2023

Close-up of the inside of a Humpback Whales mouth!
Baleen is a filter-feeding system inside the mouths of baleen whales. To use baleen, the whale first opens its mouth underwater to take in water. The whale then pushes the water out, and animals such as krill are filtered by the baleen and remain as a food source for the whale. Baleen is similar to bristles and consists of keratin, the same substance found in human fingernails, skin and hair. Baleen is a skin derivative. Some whales, such as the bowhead whale, have longer baleen than others. Other whales, such as the gray whale, only use one side of their baleen. These baleen bristles are arranged in plates across the upper jaw of whales.
Depending on the species, a baleen plate can be 0.5 to 3.5 m (1.6 to 11.5 ft) long, and weigh up to 90 kg (200 lb). Its hairy fringes are called baleen hair or whalebone hair. They are also called baleen bristles, which in sei whales are highly calcified, with calcification functioning to increase their stiffness.[1][2] Baleen plates are broader at the gumline (base). The plates have been compared to sieves or Venetian blinds.
Photo Credit: Jackie J Cowan Jackie Cowan Captain Jackie

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas to All! Christmas fun on The Pamper III