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Today on the 12:15 trip we headed to Race Rocks ecological reserve to introduce guests to the seals and sealions, sea birds including a brown pelican who is not native to this area. It was an appropriate reason, following that we were going to search for a group of transients.
We found the group who is thought to be of 9 individuals; T090 T090B, T124, T124D, T124E, T100, T100B, T100C, T100D. The group were making a kill when arrived on scene at about 1:45. We know this because of the behavior, lots of activity, directional milling in small groups, porpoising, some spy hops, belly rolls, tail slapping, tail lobbing. One of the youngsters lunged right out of the water in pursuit of lunch! We watched the group hunt until they seemed content to moved on. They were located at about 3 miles south east of Port Angeles and headed west into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. They traveled in a nice family formation on their departure from us. Always so awesome to see these animals in the wild of their nature.
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