By-the-wind-sailor jellyfish

Another by-the-wind-sailor jellyfish, aka Vellela velella, this one on beautiful West Beach of Calvert Island. Have you seen Velella this summer? Where?
#jellyfish #vellella #hakaibeachinstitute #hakai #beaches

Another by-the-wind-sailor jellyfish, aka Vellela velella, this one on beautiful West Beach of Calvert Island. Have you seen Velella this summer? Where?
#jellyfish #vellella #hakaibeachinstitute #hakai #beaches
Great view from Pender Island looking out over the other Gulf Islands.
Consilience is defined as a context in which independent lines of evidence arrive at the same conclusion.
Calm misty morning at a favourite spot in the central coast. Raincoast Conservation research vessel Achiever awaiting at anchor before getting underway to explore the Great Bear.
Grizzly under trees.
With coronavirus affecting normalcy around the world, the Raincoast Lab at the University of Victoria is not going to be doing fieldwork this season, and instead will maintain virtual connection, support from afar.
Views like this are not unusual in the Great Bear Rainforest. Our strategy to end the trophy hunting of grizzly bears and wolves includes…