We had a marvelous May !!

        May was a fabulous month. Some really neat things happen in May. One of my favorite things is the appearance of crab larvae. A crab’s life cycle begins with an egg. This egg hatches and goes through a series of moults, until it finally reaches an adult. The...

Spring Whale Migration in Ucluelet

Each year more than 20,000 Gray whales travel along the west coast of Vancouver Island, near Ucluelet and Barkley Sound, between early March and late May. Gray whales have the longest known migration of any mammal, more than 16,000 km round trip, between their winter...