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Back Offshore – 12/9/25
Two more YCN pelagics off Staithes yesterday and it could not have been more different from the shearwater-fest of two weeks ago. Not a single shearwater seen and only one Arctic Skua. Richard’s Fea’s-type Petrel didn’t reappear and we struggled for the first four hours in rough seas. Fortunately, the Bottlenose Dolphins we’d seen off…
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Magical Day with Bigg’s Killer Whales – 19/9/25
Another magical September day with great T parties. In the morning we could see T060D and T060E along with T046Bs at least plus other friends that we couldn’t confirm since they were far and spread out and during the afternoon tour. We found T060D and T060E already travelling by themselves and the T party still…
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Baby-sitting an Orca Calf
So it was really sweet. It was one of these days we were out on the boat. I was working with the Icelandic Orca project who was one of my collaborators for my Ph.D. and we were out on the boat trying to get biopsies and it was really foggy that day and there was…
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Sunset Tour with Orcas and Humpbacks – 27/8/25
We headed out for an evening tour out of Victoria BC. We headed south west out of the harbour. When we met with the T075B’s, they were just milling around in the strait of Juan de Fuca. At one time the family came close to the other boat (their engines were off) and the newest…
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T075B’s Hunt Some Seals – 27/8/25
The T075Bs were cruising along the Stuart Island shoreline foraging for food. In the time we spent there they must’ve taken out around 3 seals! The hunts were short lived but the celebrations were not. Pictured here is T075B breaching beside her newest little one T075B5! It’s believed that at the time this calf was…