Today turned out to be a gorgeous day on the water. Jpod spent most of the day around San Juan Island area traveling, milling, feeding and socializing in small family groups. This morning most of the group was traveling along the San Juan Island shorline. We found that L57 Faith was mixed into the group as in previous days.
This afternoon the same group was traveling northbound along the San Juan Island shoreline. Much of the group moved north when Ruffles J1 turned south by himself. We paralelled along side of him to find out what he was up to. Sure enough a small group of orcas emerged along with L57, they were far behind and none of us knew they were there except for J1 Ruffles. Check out the last image above of both J1 and L57 traveling together. It was almost as if he was sent back to collect those dragging way behind the rest of the group. From there they traveled northbound as the rest were well on their way and now out of sight.
This evenings trip hosted a variety of behaviors, hunting behavior, spy hops, tail lobs and some belly rolls infront of a group of kayaks. A few breaches went off in the distance, but sorry I was not able to catch those. Another beautiful journey on the Ocean Magic.
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