Arleigh explains foraging behavior while we're waiting for the animals to surface
On our 3:30 Ocean Magic Adventure trip, I heard that all three pods (although didn't see any L's so not sure about them) were in the area today. When we arrived, the pods were spread far apart up and down the shoreline of San Juan Island hunting, feeding and traveling. We started viewing K pod, a small group including K21 Cappuccino were traveling southbound north of Lime Kiln close to the shoreline. K's and some J's I believe passed VERY close to the shoreline off Lime Kiln park giving the many spectators onshore a front row, 5 star view of the animals. Based off what I saw through my lens, the orcas passing by would have been just a few feet from the shore where people were located. I saw a variety of behaviors today; breaching, pec slapping, speed porpoising, tail slapping, foraging and traveling.
Through my lens I was lucky enough to capture 1 small animal breach and also managed to catch the end of another breach not far off from Lime Kiln... Further on, one lone spectator on shore was witness to a pec slap, or was the orca waving at him?. Because of our restrictions around the animals, we remained about a mile offshore. At the end of our trip, we saw 1 large male (I am not exactly sure who it was, I have looked at the ID chart and do not want to guess as there are several who look alike) speed porpoising south. Because the orcas were so close to shore today, and we were quite far back, it was a bit difficult to tell you who we were looking at exactly. None the less, it's always a beautiful experience to be out there, in the presence of such magnificent animals.
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