Live Webcams in Hanson Island

Hanson Island, a forested speck off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, sits in the channels where Johnstone Strait meets Blackfish Sound, and the live webcams in Hanson Island watch two kinds of shore: lookouts over the strait where northern resident orcas and humpbacks pass, and the rocky haul-outs at water level where sea lions pile up, argue and sleep on each other. Watching it live is a whale watch with no boat. The island keeps Pacific Time, UTC−8, UTC−7 in summer, so a bright strait at 16:00 UTC is early morning here and the whales show up whenever they like. The nearby Robson Bight reserve, set aside in 1982 to protect the orcas' rubbing beaches, is one reason this stretch of water is so reliable. July to October for the orcas, autumn and winter for the sea lions.