Good heavens, what a day! We set out to find the southern resident killer whales who were traveling north near Turn Point. By the time we arrived, what appeared to be most of the 3 pods were turned around heading south. We witnessed a variety of behaviors including mating behavior, spyhopping, logging, blowing of rasberries (blowing fart noises out of the blow hole) cartwheeling, speed porpoising, breaching, tail slapping and more. The animals traveled sometimes in small groups or individudally. Near the end of our time with the orcas we had a great surprize as a group passed our port hand side. We saw many of the J's and L's and recognized a variety of the large males however many were backlit so it was a bit difficult to see who the others were exactly.
On our way home from this spectacular sight, we stopped in at Race Rocks to see the compiling groups of sea lions and a few elephant seals hauled out and swimming in the reserve. We got word that the two humpback whales (mother and calf) were sighted not far from there so we headed over and watched them as they swam together sometimes lifting their tails out of the water. Calf was fairly close to mom, what a sweet sight to see these guys returning to our waters each year. They are here for a short time before heading across the pacific to Hawaii. Spectacular day indeed! Felt like a hot summer August day!
There are tons more photos to see, click on any photo to go back to flickr and there you can see all of todays photos!
For more photos from today and other days trips you can check out our guests awesome shots; Gary Woodburn & Marie O'Shaughnessy
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