9-11-2020 SRKWs, Smoke, Social Time on the Hydrophones Too

Friday, Sept 11th

Today, word came that whales of J, K, and L pods were inbound.  I was so hoping they were finding salmon where the air was cleaner, because it has been very smokie inland.  In fact, so much that the ships were blasting their 'fog' horns.

Not sure if all the SRKW community came in, but there were many...

...it was around 3:30 when a few came up to the Lime Kiln lighthouse...though it was difficult to see them as they were not in close to shore.

...I noted yesterday that the sport fishing boats were not in their usual in-close-to shore locations (this is around in the area that is supposed to be a protected zone - oh, well..) anyway...I noted the location of the boats because there are times when salmon move through Haro Strait they will be farther offshore...bingo!

...so this afternoon the few J Pod whales who came up were along the same line as those yesterday sport fishers...glad there were only a few whales out there this afternoon because you could barely see them through the smoke...

...maybe these whale were scouting things out...

...later I noticed the sun...grabbed an attempted image through the trees...

...I was working on a set of images when I began to hear some faint calls over the Lime Kiln hydrophones...and oh, my...here they came and did they ever get loud!!  Here's just 1 minute of about 30 minutes of very vocal whales!

...having trouble getting this audio uploaded...sorry...hope it works this try...

...whales, I hope the air is cleaner where you are heading...stay away from those boats who want to poke you and stick things on you...find the salmon and stay safe...take care of new baby J-57...and any other new babies who might be along side of a mom...

...ask the boats if they have signed the pledge to stay away from you so you can care for your families and have quiet space for foraging, resting, socializing, etc.

...we know you got to have that this evening because it was dark, dark outside when you went by...

...wishing you all lots of salmon along your travels...