Location: Salish Sea
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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
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There’s Still a Few Grays Left – 8/6/24
Headed out this morning to see what we could find and ended up spending some time with 2 Grays. I think they are #2557 and #2362, I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong, lol! Later we saw #2259 in the distance, we hoped it would join up with these two besties but it…
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Lags in Penn Cove – 29/5/24
What an amazing day with these guys and gals! This shot of one surfacing under the rainbow was taken in Penn Cove off Whidbey Island. We think there were somewhere between 12-20 of them, and they stayed in the quiet waters in and around Penn Cove all day. They were there when we departed last…
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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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Celebratory Breaches – 26/3/24
The T018s and T049As were hanging around in Spieden channel and as we were getting on scene a sealion hunt initiated. While these hunts normally took hours, this hunt took 2 minutes! This was the fastest sealion hunt I have ever witnessed. T019B breached multiple times in celebration of a successful takedown! -Tom