Blackberry
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A Humpback and Southern Residents – 9/8/18
It was a beautiful day out on the water and we caught up to a lone humpback right outside the Victoria Harbour. It was traveling Eastward towards Clover Point Park. At first the humpback wasn’t overly active, doing deep dives and barely lifting its tail out of the water. While we were waiting for the…
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Southern Ocean Alive with Orca – 18/2/22
Southern Ocean Alive with Orca as we were surrounded with surging and breaching Orca within moments of arriving in The Patch. The energy was electric all day with the Orca as we had 360 degrees of white water with Orca launching all around. It has been a steady build up to this energy over the…
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Our Matriarch Wobbles – 1/2/21
Our Matriarch Wobbles is an inspiration to our family pod so when it came time to name a beautiful female Orca we knew that Wobbles was going to be the perfect name. Sunshine guided us out to The Patch before a beautiful cloud cover split the day into two halves as perfect spotting conditions unfolded.…
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Orcas Feeding on Continental Shelf – 12/3/20
Orcas Feeding on the Continental Shelf was spectacular today as we observed breaching, fluke slapping and tail lobbing all around us. Our morning firstly began with Blackberry and his family pod, he has grown extraordinarily over the last two years and now has one of the tallest dorsal fins in the population. Three families were…
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My First Time Meeting J Pod – 30/5/12
It was an overcast day at the end of May, and my first time going whale watching. I was boiling over with excitement, I was a whale nerd and my dreams of seeing whales were about to come true. We traveled over toward San Juan Island then into Rosario Strait where we met up with…