A Clan
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Seeing Whales in Telegraph Cove! – 24/8/24
Sara So, we decided to go to the northern part of Vancouver Island, to a small community called Telegraph Cove. It is in a well-known or near a well-known whale area, sort of near Port McNeill, Port Hardy, and it’s just north of the Johnston strait where the Robson Bight Michael Biggs Ecological Reserve is,…
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Northern Resident’s at a Rubbing Beach
We were on our boat the Skana to do a survey of the area, gathering data We headed out into Hecate Strait, it happened to be a beautiful day, even before we dropped the hydrophone (which we often do) in front of us some whales appeared. We were kind of surprised as we hadn’t heard…
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The A30s in Johnstone Strait – 9/10
We were lucky enough to go whale watching out of Telegraph Cove for a birthday in September in 2010. After a quick glance at a Humpback Whale we came across the A30s, a matriline that’s part of A clan of the Northern Resident Killer Whales, a fairly common matriline in Johnstone Strait. A30 “Tsitika” was…
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Orcafest! – 30/8/17
30th August was our last whale watching trip from Port McNeil. It started with us seeing a humpback surrounded by Dalls Porpoise, the Humpback didn’t seem to mind having the porpoises swim with him/her and it was a lovely sight to watch two different species interact. We then were lucky to see a humpback whale…
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Incredible Encounter with the Northern Residents! – 4/9/18
After following the A42 pod for a few hours (east of Quadra Island) from a long distance, we lost them north of the Sutil Islands. We stopped to prepare lunch for two hungry kids on board, and behold the pod popped up right in front of our bow! They swam north past our boat and…