Sea Kayaking with the Orcas

Sea Kayaking with the Orcas
Vancouver Island, British Columbia

At the top of the list of lifetime wonders, sea kayaking with the Orcas couldn't be easier than signing up on one of our incredible Orca Kayaking Tours.

Kayaking with the Orcas
(Orcinus Orca)

The Northern Resident Killer Whale pods make regular visits to the pebbly beaches to rub and roll themselves on possibly to relieve themselves from a skin parasite unique to the Northern Residents. Across from the rubbing beaches, perched high atop a cliff is a research outpost that is occupied by a group of very dedicated people that collect data on the Orcas activities all summer long. We often pass under them while kayaking with the Orcas.

Whale sounds from the Hydrophone
The Orca makes sounds while underwater that can be heard with a special underwater microphone called a hydrophone while kayaking with the Orcas. A good quality hydrophone will pick up the clicks from the Orcas echo location signals as well as the inspiring sounds of the calls them selves. The "calls" the Killer Whale makes are made with its blowhole much like we would whistle. Incredibly, the Orcas calls are unique for each pod, allowing researchers to identify the pods just by the sounds they make. They don't even have to see them to tell who is there.

Saddles and IDs
Each Killer Whale has unique

patches of white/gray pigment on their backs at the base of their dorsal fins that has scratches and marks that researchers use to identify individual whales.

Exciting Wildlife Viewing
This area is also home to a host of other animals both land and marine wildlife. There are Bald Eagles, Black Bears, Black Tailed Deer, Mink, River Otters, Sea Lions, Pacific White Sided Dolphins and Dalls' Porpoises. Low tide reveals a cornucopia of discovery with star fishes, sea anemones, shell fish, jelly fish, and the list goes on. Adventure is abound while kayaking with the Orcas.

Kayaking with the Orcas
Out For Adventure Wilderness Tours offers kayaking adventures across Canada, specializing in kayaking with the Orcas in Johnstone Strait British Columbia. More information can be found About these kayaking with the Orcas tours by the follow links.

Kayaking with the Orcas
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Kayaking with the Orcas
Trip Description

Kayaking with the Orcas is an amazing experience and is very popular in British Columbia. Each year many excited guests join Out For Adventure Wilderness Tours for an experience of a lifetime- kayaking with the Orcas. As you learn more about the wild Orca the more intriguing the idea of paddling a kayak with them becomes. A kayak leaves no tracks, no marks on the water. It makes no mechanical sounds, emits nothing into the water or air, uses no animals for propulsion. It glides across the water with ease and grace like a whale cruising the surface. When we read about the wild Orca in BC, we inevitably will read about kayaking with the Orcas and the rubbing beaches in the Robson Bight Ecological Reserve.

Robson Bight Ecological Reserve
The Robson Bight is an Ecological Reserve for the whales located on the Vancouver Island shore at the Sitika valley. Extending either side of the valley and one kilometer off shore the entire area is out of bounds to all but the whales and the commercial fishermen during an opening. Within it's boundaries are the famous rubbing beaches. Kayaking with the Orcas does not take place within the boundary.

Kayaking with the Orcas is brought to you by Out For Adventure Wilderness Tours. Come kayaking with the Orcas in BC. We supply all camping and kayaking gear for the Orca adventure of a lifetime. Sea kayaking with Orcas is our most popular kayaking tour in BC. Orcas may swim past, under and around our sea kayaks on our sea kayaking with orcas tour in British Columbia.

Kayaking with the Orcas, Killer Whales Vancouver Island, British Columbia