We wanted to visit the aquarium so we drove over to Ucluelet for the day. Waiting for the aquarium to open I took a few photos around the dock.
Interesting reflections with a common merganser going by
This Black Turnstone (I looked it up later) was skittish and didn't really want its picture taken. In flight it had a beautiful pattern on its wings. I took photos of related Ruddy Turnstones in Belize last winter.
This crow was working on getting the marrow out of a bone of some sort. It didn't care if I took photos of it. (That's frost on the wood.)
Across the bay I spotted the white head of a bald eagle in a tree but it was too far away for decent photos. There were also jelly fish floating in the water beside the dock.
This sparrow (Lincoln's?) was also a cooperative subject, although it didn't stay in one spot for very long.
We visited the Ucluelet aquarium quite a few years ago when it was in the previous tiny building. At that time they were raising money for a new building (we donated). It was nice to see the new building - quite an improvement. It's not a huge fancy aquarium like the Vancouver one, but it's run by a non-profit society and it's interesting because it's a catch and release aquarium so everything is local. One of the tanks has been running for years. It started out with a bare chunk of concrete. The water is circulated from the ocean and the concrete is now completely covered and encrusted with a huge variety of creatures that colonized it from the water.
I would have loved to take more photos, but the sides of the tanks weren't very clear and taking photos through the surface doesn't work that great.
This sea urchin was poking out of the water, and very colorful.
A different anemone from the kind you see in the tide pools
And this starfish was just below the surface. The details on these creatures are fascinating.
This is a closeup of the top of a starfish
I didn't quite manage to get all of this snail in focus
We had lunch at the Black Rock Oceanfront Resort restaurant that had a great oceanfront view.
We also did a few hikes in the area on the Wild Pacific Trail. It doesn't seem fair that the Salal is flowering when it's full on winter at home.
This looks a bit like another flower, but I think it's just leaves changing color
The sun was melting the frost on these cedar branches
Another Bald Eagle in the distance. When we tried to move closer it flew away.
And a few reflection shots because I can't resist them. This is the reflection of a log
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Interesting reflections with a common merganser going by
This Black Turnstone (I looked it up later) was skittish and didn't really want its picture taken. In flight it had a beautiful pattern on its wings. I took photos of related Ruddy Turnstones in Belize last winter.
This crow was working on getting the marrow out of a bone of some sort. It didn't care if I took photos of it. (That's frost on the wood.)
Across the bay I spotted the white head of a bald eagle in a tree but it was too far away for decent photos. There were also jelly fish floating in the water beside the dock.
This sparrow (Lincoln's?) was also a cooperative subject, although it didn't stay in one spot for very long.
We visited the Ucluelet aquarium quite a few years ago when it was in the previous tiny building. At that time they were raising money for a new building (we donated). It was nice to see the new building - quite an improvement. It's not a huge fancy aquarium like the Vancouver one, but it's run by a non-profit society and it's interesting because it's a catch and release aquarium so everything is local. One of the tanks has been running for years. It started out with a bare chunk of concrete. The water is circulated from the ocean and the concrete is now completely covered and encrusted with a huge variety of creatures that colonized it from the water.
I would have loved to take more photos, but the sides of the tanks weren't very clear and taking photos through the surface doesn't work that great.
This sea urchin was poking out of the water, and very colorful.
A different anemone from the kind you see in the tide pools
And this starfish was just below the surface. The details on these creatures are fascinating.
This is a closeup of the top of a starfish
I didn't quite manage to get all of this snail in focus
We had lunch at the Black Rock Oceanfront Resort restaurant that had a great oceanfront view.
We also did a few hikes in the area on the Wild Pacific Trail. It doesn't seem fair that the Salal is flowering when it's full on winter at home.
This looks a bit like another flower, but I think it's just leaves changing color
The sun was melting the frost on these cedar branches
Another Bald Eagle in the distance. When we tried to move closer it flew away.
And a few reflection shots because I can't resist them. This is the reflection of a log
See all 16 photos in this album
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