June 5, 2017 – Wow, what a day spent with the transient orca family known as the T65A’s. Resting, a long slow circle around the whale watchers, traveling, catching porpoise for supper, orca conversations, breaches in front of Mt Baker in the glassy calm waters of Boundary Pass. It doesn’t get any better than this.
Sailing towards Lovers Leap
Bald eagles nest
T65A with T65A4 and T65A2
T65A5 – born 2014
T65As headed our way
The T65A’s swam in a slow circle very close by all the boats – including us
T65As with Olympic Mountain range
Chasing after a harbor porpoise
T65A2 tail lob
T65A2 – born 2004
T65A eating dinner while we watch
T65A kids eating supper together
Special birthday celebration spent in paradise
S/V Pacific Swift
T65A2 backwards half breach
T65A2 backwards half breach
T65A2 cartwheel
Repeated pectoral fin slaps by T65A2
T65A Spy Hop
T65As in Boundary Pass – with Mt Baker and Skipjack Island
Playtime after supper
T65A breach – she was born 1986
Orca headstand with Mt Baker
Orca breach in front of Mt Baker
Harbor seals and bald eagle on White Rock – Waldron Island in the background
North side of Flattop Island
1 of 2 river otters on Flattop Island
South side of Flattop Island
Sunset sail back to port
Sunset sail back to port