I believe this is Skana L79 who surprised us. He's done this before, he's a rather sneeky big guy sometimes lol
On our 3:30pm Ocean Magic Adventure, all 3 pods came together at the bottom of Lopez Island ( I think it was) and were making their way back over to San Juan Island from Rosario Strait. The animals were quite active, breaching, tail lobbing, and speed porpoising. They were traveling spread out and in groups. We were quite surprised while watching one group, just when we saw they were headed our way Captain Anna started to move the vessel out of the way when passengers were treated to a very unexpected visitor! See the video at the top of the post for that moment. Passengers were treated to lovely views of many of the large males (K21, L41, L79, L78) including everyones favorite Ruffles J1. Thanks to all the great crew and captain Anna Hall (today an all women team) for a perfect trip!
Below is a crop of the scarring on L78's fin, because I know some people are interested to have a better look.
FYI, I will be blogging two Victoria Ocean Magic trips a week; Wed and Thursday 3:30 pm. Also look out for some of the Vancouver crossing, Butchart Gardens and Vancouver & Victoria Zodiac trips to be blogged by me this summer!
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