Vocalizing
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Language of the Orca – 9/3/19
Queen taught us The Language of the Orca today as to our astonishment she swam towards our bow and spoke to us with a clear, “Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” being heard on her exhale! She was most certainly having a good old chat and it seemed directed towards us as we watched the incredible interaction unfold throughout the…
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A Whale of a Time! – 9/02
When I first looked at the brochure for Vancouver Whale Watch, I saw people sitting in a small boat and pod of orcas swimming by extremely close. I was sure that the whales would never come that close to a boat, certainly not mine. I was so wrong. I took my first ever whale watching…
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Another Amazing Day on the Ningaloo Reef – 19/7/19
I work as an underwater photographer on the Ningaloo reef, we are in the fourth year of trailing humpback whales swims as a form of tourism, similar to Tonga… It was my first training day so I was pretty damn excited the pilot spotted a pod of 12 whales approaching from the south, the skipper…
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A Special Cetacean Day in The Azores – 15/7/05
It was early morning and as we pulled away from the shore, the hairs on the back of my neck lifted in rapid unison. On board a cruise boat myself and seven other excited ladies looked back in awe at the isolation of the islands that make up the Azores. The island of Pico stood…
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A Record Setting Day with Bigg’s (Transient) Killer Whales! – 7/4/19
A record setting day today! A long haul to follow up on a report in the Strait of Georgia led to us finding a very large group of Bigg’s (Transient) Killer Whales. It started with the T36A’s, T36B’s, T100s, T99’s and T101s but as they continued west at high speed, they met up with the…