Location: Salish Sea
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A Unique Encounter for a Harbour Seal – 19/9/24
This Harbour Seal was rolling around in a bait ball seemingly enjoying themselves. However they didn’t see BCX1876 “Zillion” coming and when she lunge fed, the seal did not move out of the way. Zillion began sloshing water in her mouth until the seal poured out the side and swam away free. -Tom @PhotosWithFlip on Instagram
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Sunset Whales – 30/8/24
in HumpbackTwo humpbacks were playing with sealions off of Otter Point. The fiery sunset lit the water a bright orange as these 2 were spy hopping and rolling around. Once they left, their flukes shined through the sunset to finish off the night. -Tom @PhotosWithFlip on Instagram
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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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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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Humpback Calf Playing with Kelp – 11/7/24
Zephyrs calf decided it no longer wanted to feed and wanted to play in some kelp! It rolled around and threw itself around while mom was off finding food for herself. Once mom let the calf play for around 15 minutes she came back to wrangle her in and get her back on track. -Tom