Thursday, October 3, 2019

10-3-19 What's Been Going On with the SRKWs

catching up from the last few weeks...

...things were pretty quiet, so seeing 'anything' was a treat...how about an elephant seal...
 

9-21-19  some K and L Pod whales came in...got to see them on 9-21...


 ...some Ls went north late in the day and some of the whales stayed down island...they were seen again from Lime Kiln on the 24th and 25th...late in the day, far from shore...challenging to ID who had come up, then a u-turn and back down island again...


 ...there's a whale in there...
 ...it just kept getting more and more stunning...

...J Pod plus the K13s and Onyx (L-87) had already been in Puget Sound for many days...they went up Rosario Strait on 9-25 and somewhere and at some time they met up with the L Pod whales who had gone up on the 21st...they all came down on September 30...
...they were spread out and many were chasing fish...

10-2-19
...on this day Ts were present...they had been seen coming in from the west on 10-1...then in San Juan Channel in the morning on 10-2...it was a surprise that after they went west through Spieden Channel they turned south and came past the lighthouse...it was very far to the south when they turned and came back north (but much farther offshore than when then had come down)...always great to see this family of T18s - T018, T019, T019B and T019C...here are the two males...



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...T19B has a huge dorsal fin...it is much taller than it looks because it leans




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