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A Magnificent Day with a Fin Whale and the T419’s – 14/3/26
Today started with me opening my front door to gray skies, drippy, wet snow and biting cold, but yesterday ended with whales heading our way, and there were shorelines to scout. After stopping for hot coffee, I followed a route from the west side of Whidbey to the east side, then down island. Two hours…
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Crinkle and a Murre – 22/9/23
T037A3 and T037A4 along with T137A and T137D spent about a month together traversing the Salish Sea together. During this encounter, the young whales were playing with common murres while the eldest whales kept on swimming east. On this occasion, T037A4 Crinkle managed to grab a murre! -Tom
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A Large Group of Bigg’s Killer Whales! – 26/6/22
Rushed up to Parksville yesterday to head out on the water and follow up on a large group of Bigg’s! Incredible day with multiple matrilines socializing with 31 animals present including the T049As, T002Cs, T100s, T137s, T034s, T037, T037Bs, T123s, and the T101s. Love the coordinated Bigg’s launches that seem to happen quite frequently during…
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Looking into the Eyes of the Prey – 5/7/14
When we found the whales near Thetis Island, they were doing what whales do, travelling, milling about. While we watched them with engines off, I noticed off our starboard side a Harbour Seal. Everyone was looking at the whales off our stern but I was looking at the seal. The way these Orcas are acting,…
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Insane Encounter with Bigg’s (Transient) Killer Whales – 28/12/17
We were close to Victoria late tonight, after an amazing encounter with the T049As (T049A2 present), who were predating on a harbor seal, when we stumbled upon 15 or more killer whales (T036As, T036Bs, T137s and likely another group)! Two of these matrilines were sighted in Mendocino last week. Tonight, they were in pursuit of…