T019B
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Winter Light Glows – 10/1/26
Winter light glows. Add stunning Canadian mountains, the T019 matriline and a sea lion hunt, and you have a recipe for an epic pictorial of nature in action. Hunts of this nature often evoke conflicting feelings within. I’m in awe and wonder of the power of these apex predators, but seeing their prey flee in…
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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
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Massive Breach from Spouter – 8/8/20
We battled today through some rough conditions to catch up with the T018’s in the Strait of Georgia. They were quite spread out and I was hanging out with T019B “Galiano” for a while and could see his brother, T019C “Spouter” in the distance. Just as I started to head over towards him, he did…
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A Rare Visit from Bigg’s Killer Whales – 12/3/20
Over the past number of years, I have had the opportunity to take my grade 9 students from Calgary, Alberta on an outdoor school trip to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre on Vancouver Island. During this 5-day trip, students get to participate in activities that build on their learning at school, while immersing them in…
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A Decade Long Relationship with T019B “Galiano”
My relationship with Killer Whales started when I was a child for a young girl growing up in Ontario. The water in the Great Lakes was fabulous but I was shattered when to discover that there were no whales in them! I eventually made my way to the West Coast and finally out on the…