WOW! What a magnificent day!We were so lucky to be able to spend the majority of the day with very, VERY playful Orca!After our 24 nautical mile journey out to the canyon it was only moments after dropping off the continental shelf that a young pod of orca were...
Our passenger’s first glimpse of orca today was as soon as we hit the hotspot by the large male, El Notcho! Following closely was the adult female Cookie and her now rather large calf Oreo was there for the fun too! They began patrolling the hotspot in the hopes of a...
On arrival to the hotspot this morning the smell of an oil slick in the air was rife! Organic and slimy, the orca had just finished a mammalian breakfast but the party was over as the orca and birds had moved out of the area to continue hunting leaving only the slick...
“Another day in the canyon, another beaked whale no longer… in the canyon” – Captain DundeeWe were lucky enough to experience another hunt in which the Killer Whales took down a Beaked Whale. Quite graphic scenes but these apex predators are running on instinct...
What a fantastic way to wrap up the orca action for the month of January!Our passengers were greeted by El Notcho’s pod this morning almost as soon as crew could get out the words “We’ve just arrived in the hotspot”.Orca seemed to be busy searching the depths for...
Our daily routine is becoming quite fluent! Three dorsal fins emerged over the swell line as we entered the “hotspot” this morning! The call went out across the boat and before we knew it the orca had VANISHED into thin air (or deep blue sea)after our first glance!...
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