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July in Norway – 7/24
Half of July 2024 has passed, and we were lucky to encounter orcas regularly in the past 2 weeks. One day, we encountered a familiar pod we had met several times. We quickly recognized one of the females, who had a small part of her dorsal fin missing. Two years ago, during the winter herring…
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Monterey Killer Whales! – 24/8/24
Our trip started like any other whale watching trip out of Monterey harbor – a few sea otters and plenty of California sea lions and Brandt’s cormorants out on the breakwall. We ventured south to see what was around and plenty of Humpback Whales were definitely around. You could spot a spout from a Humpback…
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A Cruel and Beautiful Encounter – 13/7/24
Nature is both cruel and beautiful. It is a dichotomy that we saw in action today aboard @islandadventurewhales . Our trip took us down Admiralty Inlet towards Puget Sound. A T-party of 38 individual orcas was on the move, and we were so fortunate to see about 20 of them. The T046Bs, T049As, T075 and her son…
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Bigg’s Harass Gray Whales – 11/5/24
Today on our boat, Tim and I started off the morning visiting with orcas T065A5 “Indy” and T065A3 “Amira” brothers with the nickname the Lost Boys as they have been traveling without the rest of their family for a bit. We lost them after a few minutes so we went on to see if we…
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Killer Whales Hunting Dolphins in Algoa Bay – 4/14
We have been observing an incredible number of Bottlenose Dolphins in Algoa Bay of late, on one cruise up to 1700 in five pods! No question about us being “The Bottlenose Dolphin Capital of the World”! When we left port recently with a boat full of cruise liner guests, we observed Bottlenose Dolphins “flying” past…