Lucky
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Best Day of the Season So Far – 28/5/22
What a day! We had T002B and the T060s (minus D/E), T065Bs, T075Bs, T109Cs & T123s Here are the T123’s from this perfect, drizzly tour. T060 “Panthera” checking us out after surfacing unexpectedly…giving us a great look at her namesake! Can you see the big cat-like form in her eyepatch? ???? She’s named after the…
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Killer Whales “Ruin” Our Day of Porpoise Study – 17/5/20
We study porpoises around the world, but obviously, every living thing in the ocean gets our attention. Big and small, black and white or the simple, stylish grey of our favourite small cetacean, the Harbour Porpoise, we get to see it all. Sometimes, though, we are a little more conflicted about those sightings, and this…
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Lucky’s Pod – 17/2/20
Lucky’s pod is one of our favourite family pods to interact with and today we enjoyed the company of not only Lucky but her entire 18+ pod member family. Our morning began with the excitement of Common Dolphins who raced over to greet us and there certainly isn’t anything too common about them at all.…
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Spoon the Sleepy, Massive Humpback Whale
NA-0150 “Spoon” is a very special whale. She is huge, often seems a bit sleepy, and sadly appears to not be a very good mother! Spoon is often sighted sleeping. When humpbacks sleep the lay motionless in the water. Half their brain is asleep, while the other half remains awake to remind them to breathe…
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My First Time Seeing Killer Whales from Land! – 4/4/13
It was very early in the morning on a spring day in Sidney B.C. I decided to go to the water to watch the Sunrise. As I walked along I started to hear blows. I looked out toward Sidney Spit and there were Orca heading in toward Sidney. I realized they were going to the…