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Article: Whale of a time
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- August 15, 2009
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Nothing quite like kayaking amid orcas
11Riding a roller-coaster can be thrilling. Plunging a bike down a steep slope can be downright scary.
But there's nothing quite like the mix of fear and exhilaration that comes with sitting in a kayak while aquatic mammals the size of station wagons plunge in and out of the water around your position.
British Columbia's Johnstone Strait, a 110-kilometre-long passageway on the northeast side of Vancouver Island, is likely the best place on Earth to get a good look at orcas.
While it's illegal in Canada to get too close to any species of whale, the narrow nature of Johnstone Strait -- only 2.5 to five kilometres wide -- almost guarantees some form of ...