Monday, November 10, 2014

Eyeball to eyeball with Canada’s migrating salmon

Photo, courtesy Josh Humbert, BBC

Eyeball to eyeball with Canada’s migrating salmon

BBC Travel, In Canada Nature & Outdoors
By Amanda Castleman, 02 November 2014

My brain froze as I submerged into the cold water of British Columbia’s Shuswap Lake. But the discomfort paled
as I watched sockeye salmon – hundreds of cherry-tinted fish with moss-green heads – swirl overhead like a kaleidoscope. At the end of an epic 4,000km journey, they were waiting to swim the final leg upstream to spawn and die.

Read more (& pix): http://bbc.in/1ysjJHP

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