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.
Susan MacKay, Whales
and Dolphins BC
Northern Resident Orca
February 11. 2012
Photo by Ed Jordan
Northern Resident Orca
February 11. 2012
Photo by Ed Jordan
Northern Resident Orca
February 11. 2012
Photo by Ed Jordan
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