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is the approximately the 50 km long, 3km wide waterway that runs between Vancouver Island and the mainland of Canada, approximately 250 km northwest of Vancouver in British Columbia. Surrounded by luxuriant conifer forest and dotted with numerous tiny islands, this scenic strait is renowned as the summer home of wild orcas. The whales are attracted by the migrating salmon. Perhaps because of the easy abundance of food, the Strait has become a traditional meeting ground where the orcas come to be together. Johnstone Strait features special "rubbing" beaches where the orcas enter the shallows to rub their bodies on smooth stones.
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