This morning we had only been traveling for about 15 minutes when we encountered a groups of Transient Orcas (marine mammal eaters), the T100's, near Trial Island! The Transients were moving through the Kelp Beds at Trial, possibly hunting for Harbor Seals.
We then traveled East towards San Juan Island where we encountered members of K & L-pod. The Orcas seemed to be in hunting/foraging mode and were spread out over a wide area from the shoreline to 2 miles off shore.
We had a nice encounter with L26 "Baba" and her daughter L90 "Ballena", plus passes by L87 "Onyx", K13 "Skagit" & her son K34 "Cali".
Apart from the Orcas we also saw many Harbor Seals & Pups, Cormorants, a Bald Eagle, Harbor Porpoise and a number of Seagull Chicks:)
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