J Pod came back in this morning...that wasn't expected...and what my pictures showed that I took from really far away wasn't what I had expected either!
J Pod calls began over the hydrophones.
As soon as I got to the shoreline I saw three harbor porpoise moving north past the lighthouse. Moments later another group.
Not long after a couple sea lions appeared traveling the same path as the harbor porpoise - in close to shore, moving north.
That reminded me of 2005, April, before hydrophones were on-line.
It was late in the day and I was sitting on the rocks just enjoying the late afternoon, when along came a group of porpoise and soon behind them a few sea lions...and little did I know behind them was J Pod!
It didn't happen quite that way today, but there may have been a reason the harbor porpoise and the sea lions were moving away from the orcas. It wasn't until later when I was looking at the few images I took today of the whales, when I noticed something was different about that group I was watching. I was down island a mile or so, and this one group appeared to be resting, no maybe foraging, or just goofing around.
I had no idea until I looked at my images several hours later. So here they are. I was really far away from the whales but you can clearly seen a harbor porpoise. Looks like Tofi J-56 was in the mix too...maybe getting an education about harbor porpoise! ha!
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