3-31-18 J Pod is Here!

Saturday, March 31st
...7:00 a.m.
...click, click, click - "that's echolocation clicks!"

...throw on clothes and out the door...no time for coffee!!!

...scan from here...then to the park...hmm...nothing...did I miss them?...did they go up or down...finally after about 45 minutes it was time to drive up to County Park - success!

...story for the day is on the images...

...and time for me to leave County Park and head to Lime Kiln...

...the J16 family group was not with the rest of J pod...but that is not too unusual for them...no telling when they will show up...

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...on this day, and a good thing it was today and not tomorrow, April 1st, there was a visitor to these waters...one that evidently had not been seen in the northern part of the Salish Sea in 35 years...I don't know if there was ever a documented time of this visitor being in the waters around the San Juan Islands.
...the hydrophones detected a most unusual sound...something that went on for almost three hours...

...compare these to the J Pod echolocation clicks...