Calm Ocean but Whales?

I got all excited when in the very flat calm waters I saw something dark surface….it was disappointingly a log bobbing around in the tide line. Then I noticed something that looked like a dorsal….it was sea lion doing a sideways porpoise showing it’s flipper and looking like an Orca. I fully expected to get some Orca reports, but I may have taught the locals to realize that sea lions can truly look like Orca from a distance when they porpoise sideways slowly.

I do have some photos of the last Orcas to be spotted close by, see below. I wish they’d get back to the Sunshine Coast area. Please note that there may have been some confusion that the whales last seen up here where spotted in the UK, but, in fact, the report only was from the UK film crew I consulted with. They were filming a reality program for the Discovery Channel. The sightings they were lucky enough to see were by Hardwicke Island in Johnstone Strait (not the UK). There have been no other local (Sunshine Coast – Johnstone Strait area) sighting reports since that last sighting posted. I do hear of people keeping a lookout along the Davis Bay walk in Sechelt and other areas (thank you)….where did they go?? Keep looking, they are out there somewhere, it’s a big ocean.

Northern Resident Orca

February 11. 2012

Northern Resident Orca

February 11. 2012

Northern Resident Orca

February 11. 2012

 

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