Ucluelet - Whale Watching in Barkley Sound

In August we made use of our rain check with Jamie's Whaling Station in Ucluelet to see if we could find some whales on this outing. While scanning the horizon, we pulled alongside the 22 metre Lady Selkirk. We were in the much more exciting 12-person aluminum hull inflatable. By the way, Jamie's Whaling station gives rain checks if/when no whales are spotted on one of their trips. That had happened to us earlier in April. On this trip in August we saw 5-6 (who can count these things?) whales; Blue and Humpback.

The Lady Selkirk of Jamie's Whaling Station
in Ucluelet (2013-08-22)

Rüdesheim - Rhine Ferry to Bingen

After a few days in Taunusstein, our journey took us past Bad Schwalbach, Lorch and Rüdesheim, before we caught the ferry across the Rhine River for Bingen.

Rhine ferry from Rüdesheim to Bingen (2012-04-29)

Whale-watching Zodiacs lined up in Horseshoe Bay

If you ride with BC Ferries enough (I do!), there'll come a time when you just have to wait for your next sailing. Earlier this summer, in June, I had some time to kill because, as per usual, I had "just" missed my Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo connection. On this afternoon, I wandered about amongst the Sewell's Marina boat rental fleet, hoping to get some postcard-worthy snaps. The smaller rental boats proved to be less than interesting. On the other hand, these whale-watching boats, with their bright colours, proved to be worthy of a CLICK!

Sewell's Marina Horseshoe Bay whale-watching boats (2013-06-12)