Rare sighting of 1,000 dolphins off the Gulf Islands

By Paula Baker 
Passengers sailing from the Gulf Islands to Tsawwassen were lucky witnesses to a natural phenomena when close to 1,000 dolphins came alongside the ferry yesterday afternoon.
Although there was a collective stunned amazement over the sight, one traveller, Rob Maguire, managed to capture the moment on video.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Maguire says, who moved to Vancouver from New Brunswick a little more than a year ago. “The last time I saw an orca or dolphin was more than 15 years ago.”

It was on the leg between Galiano Island and Tsawwassen when the BC Ferries crew alerted passengers to a pod of orcas off the side of the boat, and almost 45 minutes later the giant pod of dolphins was spotted...globalnews.ca/news