Ok. So the entire clan of orcas (minus the L12's who went west yesterday) was traveling south to San Juan Island - to where they will feed for the evening. Our first glimpse (south of Turn Point I believe) was of a couple of high speed porpoising orcas, and then we realized there was a calf in high persuit of a salmon. Some on board got a head on view of the calf with the fish hanging out of the mouth where i'd missed that while trying to set up a shot. (cries). But that's ok! We got our eye full while many more orca - while quite spread open - traveled at super high speed down the strait. Watching groups of 3&4 speed porpoising (above photos), more high speed hunting persuit (above photo) - one right before us and a double breach which was a treat (photos above). We ended our trip today with a few nice wide angle passes of L57 Faith (at Kelp reef) who was one of the last to make it down. Wow, the whales were spread the whole span of the Haro Strait while coming south, my first time seeing this kind of migration.
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