Residents and visitors to the long beach on the island of Vancouver are invited to keep their distances from a deceased gray whale who was washed on the shore.
Pacific Rim National Park officials said the whale was spotted for the first time on May 6 floating off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
On Wednesday, he failed on the beach.
The first nation TLA-O-O-O-AHT, FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA and Parks Canada collaborate on the next stages of the whale.
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The public is invited not to touch the whale, to maintain their distance and to keep all the dogs on a leash and far from the area.
According to the Tofino Whale CenterEach spring gray whale travels between 10,000 and 12,000 miles between their winter calving lagoons in the warm waters of Mexico and their diet in summer in the cold seas of the Arctic.
Each spring, around 20,000 gray whales pass in front of the western shores of the island of Vancouver where this whale was washed.
“Whales are known to feed in the sheltered berries near Tofino from March,” said the organization.
They will return in the fall by the same road.
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