Saturday, July 5th
...I had scanned for whales from my usual locations...nothing seen and with the flat calm seas and morning air I would be able to hear whales from a distance...nothing...
...taking a walk along the road I'm about a 1/4 mile from my car when I hear 'kwerfff' -...so they are still here...then I see a male dorsal fin just as it disappears from the surface...
...oh, no, my camera is in the car...I don't run but I sure did today!
...where I saw the whales was very close to shore just south of Land Bank...
...I assumed they were Residents...
...by the time I survived my run to the car the whales were surfacing a bit farther off shore, so I grabbed a couple images before getting to the park - where they often come in closer to shore...
...I watched them for the next couple hours, thinking that these might be the whales we'd see when out on Maya's Westside Charters...
...wrong again!...the Southern Residents, or I should say most of them were spotted out near Constance Bank, off Victoria, B.C. and were headed our way...okay Ts you get a free pass for today...
...the Residents were in groups...nice for checking off who was there...looked like J pod and Onyx L-87, K pod, and the 4 family groups of L pod returning too...
...and what the whales passed by made was unusual sight for me...
...as the whales continued toward the island some the breaching began...
...they were doing a lot of foraging...Polaris J-28 and Star J-46 were after salmon...
Sunday, July 6th
...Granny and her group - Group A - were at it again - going up island and the rest stayed back where they have been...
...actually it was another 5:00 a.m. morning!
...out on Maya's Westside Charters in the afternoon we meet up with Granny's group - Group A as I call them...while moving up toward Stuart Island we learn of a humpback whale very close by...so we took a detour to go see...
...back to the orca...up at Turn Pt...
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