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Doppelgängers!!!

Doppelgängers!!!

With our free return customers from yesterday’s no orca tour it was easy to say anticipation was high all the way out to the canyon! As we dropped over the shelf every minute felt like an hour! With no sign of orca at the hotspot we headed west, moments later the call...
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!

After yesterday’s amazing predation in the east, we decided to venture west for the day and it did not disappoint! We started searching 54km offshore at one of our favourite little nooks in the canyon. As soon as we crept over the continental shelf we sighted orca,...
Calm, calm, calm, calm…KILL

Calm, calm, calm, calm…KILL

Three days of calming, aery ocean and three days of docile, illusive orca UNTIL everything escalated in an INSTANT! Were first taken out to the Hood Canyon, where the seafloor descends another 800m from its already 1500m edge! The orca weren’t here for long before...
DEEP SEA AND SPYHOPS!

DEEP SEA AND SPYHOPS!

Today’s first sighting of orca consisted of two pods, becoming three in just moments! The wind started to drop significantly, making for incredible visibility and flat silky grey seas! As we encroached on the pods of orca, we spotted surges in the distance, too far to...
EDGING FOR MORE!

EDGING FOR MORE!

Merely moments after dropping off the continental shelf of Australia, edging to the boarder of the hotspot, a pod of orca passed by the boat on a mission!! The orca came close, we could hear the exhalations before even sighting them as they surfaced at all angles...
COULDN’T GET ANY CLOSER!

COULDN’T GET ANY CLOSER!

Today was a day we’ll remember forever! To begin, the orcas behaviour correlated with the energy of the ocean, being very cool calm and collected, resting at the surface for the first 30 minutes! Flapper and her calf Maddison have been present over our last three...