Mating
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Humpback Whale Tinder – 17/7/19
Humpback Whale Tinder unfolded in front of our eyes today as a beautiful female Humpback, named Bella after one of our young Pod Members onboard, began to communicate her Tinder bio in the Language of the Whales™. Bella’s brother commented ‘this is like Whale Tinder‘, and over the next hour or so, that is exactly…
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Rare Encounter with Mating Killer Whales – 5/12/18
Today we had a “couple” I have never seen mating behaviour in the wild before… It was amazing to see how the male tried to impress the Lady with spy hops, huge tail lobs They swam together for quite a long time…the rest of the their pods were in the area, but pretty spread out.…
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Christmas Day with Harbour Porpoises! – 25/12/15
What do you do on Christmas Day when your family lives abroad, does not celebrate the holidays or you simply enjoy spending a few hours motionless in the cold? Okay, ‘enjoy’ might be the wrong term here. But that is exactly what we did last Christmas. With the marine weather forecast finally promising a calm…
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An Unexpected Interaction between Two Southern Residents – 9/05
Early in the morning off of San Juan Island, we were just drifting watching the whales. We spotted two Southern Resident Killer Whales very close to the boat amidst some bubbling, whirling water. I couldn’t figure out what was happening and thought that maybe they were fighting. All of a sudden one of them emerged…
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An Incredible Day in Whale Soup! – 22/8/15
A group of us, on a reunion trip to Bamfield headed out on one of our friends boats (GPO Charters) for a trip around the coast. It was a beautiful sunny calm day and we were excited to spend some time together on the water and hopefully see some wildlife. Even before we had left…