Strait of Georgia

Vancouver is a major coastal seaport city situated on the mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada.

It occupies the peninsula bordered by the Burrard Inlet to the north, the Fraser Valley Delta to the south, the Strait of Georgia to the west and the coast mountains to the east and north.

This strategic location makes it Canada's primary gateway to the Pacific Rim and Asia.

The city's most defining geographical feature is its stunning dance of urban development against a dramatic natural backdrop.

The steep forested slopes of the North Shore Mountains, including the iconic peaks of Lake Grouse and Cypress, rise just north of the city center, while the waters of the Burrard Inlet, Ingalls Bay, and the Strait of Georgia frame its western and northern edges, creating a visually spectacular setting.

Vancouver experiences a mild oceanic climate heavily influenced by its coastal location and proximity to the Pacific Ocean.

It features relatively warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters.

When you say the south, how far south are we talking?

Well, populations around the Strait of Georgia, so eastern Vancouver Island, lower Fraser, in particular for Coho.

So for folks that might spend time out in the water, if you're out fishing for Coho or for Chinook in southern BC, you might actually see this resurgence firsthand.

There's a lot of fish out in the water, and we're definitely seeing that in the numbers when we look at the state of salmon.

Right.

And so that's why they just said, you know what, let's just use the 49th parallel and we'll do that all the way until the Strait of Georgia.

But of course, the 49th parallel hits the water.

And so that's where the border is.

No more hot dogs changing hands here now.

Back to the other side of the Strait of Georgia.

So on

Victoria, though, just since we're there in the neighborhood, we're talking about it.

Yeah, this one's sweet.

I think Oceanwise does this one a lot, um, with the Southern residents and, uh, I think bigs opportunistically when they find them and they do this in the winter when the resis are kind of bouncing around the Strait of Georgia.

So do you want to tell us about your DNA?

Yeah, this one's pretty cool.

And that's the inside of the island.

So not the wild Pacific, but the Strait of Georgia, which is a little more docile as far as weather goes.

The West Coast gets thrashed with rain and you can't really grow grapes out there.

People try, but it stops that trying.

In February 2013, there was a startling development in the case.

Remains were discovered on Mary Island, a small island in the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia, a province in Canada right next to Washington State.

The location was geographically plausible.

Lying in the general region, the Mercury would have passed on its way to or from Alaska.