Long weekend visitors to Tofino, B.C., might have thought they were witnessing something out of science fiction, with hundreds of tiny, blue, jellyfish-like creatures covering the beaches.
But what was initially thought of as a rare sighting of Velella velella is likely the new normal.
Mayor Josie Osborne says spring-time strandings
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