Tuesday, July 26, 2005

L12's & Baby Dalls Porpoise / San Juan Island

Sea Spray
Yan / Videographer
Common Murre
L12's / L79 - Skana
L12's / L79 - Skana
L12's / L79 - Skana
baby dalls porpoise
baby dalls porpoise

Today my friend Yan who is a professional videographer joined us on the 5 Star catamaran. We arrived on this beautiful sunny morning to San Juan Island and found the L12's spread wide apart travelling back and forth. We saw L41 / Mega as he passed by heading north. We spent much of our time observing L79 / Skana and saw some lovely passes of him and at times with his mother L22 / Spirit. At one point he stopped to hunt, lifting his tail flukes well out of the water a few times (sorry no photo). We'd heard that Jpod is still around Active Pass area this morning. On our way home, we were very excited and surprized to see a mother and new baby Dalls porpoise. I managed to get a decent baby photo or two :). We also saw lots of sea birds such as cormorants, common murres, rhinocerous auklets as well as many gulls.

ps. the top splash image is from the catamarans wash at the stern of the boat.

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