Lucky
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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…
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Bigg’s (Transient) Killer Whales: Bird Hunters! – 24/10/18
Insane encounter with Bigg’s (Transient) Orca’s this afternoon! We had the T35As, T38As and T123s on a sea lion kill, watched them celebrate, then watched them take down a second sea lion and, while the adults ate, all the youngsters chased and killed 7-8+ Rhinoceros Auklets! I’m still speechless. T123C “Lucky” attempted to breach repeatedly…
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A Beautiful Day with the T123’s – 24/6/17
Today was a beautiful day, if a little rolly out on the water. We had the T123 family hanging out in our neck of the woods. This is Sydney, T123, the mom and Matriarch of this little family of 3. We love getting to spend time with these guys. One of the cool things about…
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Another Great Encounter with T123A “Stanley!” – 21/4/17
Stanley!!!!For the first time ever I was able to ID a whale without looking at my pictures (At that distance)! I saw Stanley and immediately recognized his dorsal ! When we found him he was on his own, cause you know 17 year old teenagers sometimes need time alone, especially when they still live with…