Another perk of living in the islands... Orcas

[lokidog]

I picked Weathergirl up from town this morning after getting our daughter sent off to college and got to see these guys on the way back across.  A picture perfect day on the Sound, no wind and a pod of Orcas.  Will post some still pics later, here's a video.

BTW to the internet police, we had stopped off the side of their projected path and they turned and came to us.

http://youtu.be/HirOAFB33Fw

[CAMPMEAT]

Very cool.......

[Nerka]

don't care what you call it, I call it SPECIAL!!.............WOW!!

[hollymaster]

Awesome! 

[BOWHUNTER45]

OMG..Just showed my wife ..she is freaking out and wants to go see the whales .. Good job on the vid !

[SunnyRidge]

Absolutely amazing.! Thank you for sharing that with us.


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[denali]

Very cool.. thanks for sharing !

[kenzmad]

Nice video! Awesome beasts and a special treat for sure.

[Limhangerslayer]

What else is amazing is that there weren't 15 other boats around them and sound watch handing out brochures.

[lokidog]

I picked Weathergirl up from town this morning after getting our daughter sent off to college and got to see these guys on the way back across.  A picture perfect day on the Sound, no wind and a pod of Orcas.  Will post some still pics later, here's a video.

BTW to the internet police, we had stopped off the side of their projected path and they turned and came to us.

http://youtu.be/HirOAFB33Fw

I guess you live on the islands. Did you know a Rick King that worked at one of the dock/stores over there ? He got killed a few years ago in Idaho ? He was a pretty good friend of mine.

Nope.

The kudos go to Weathergirl for the firm hand on the camera, mine would have had it shaking all over.   

We have another video as well, will post the link tomorrow.  Here are some stills, a pair of females, two different males, and a male with females and a juvenile.

[lokidog]

What else is amazing is that there weren't 15 other boats around them and sound watch handing out brochures.

Yeah, we were pretty surprised.  We grabbed a few other folks from the island and circled up to the north where we found them again.  As we sat there, the Victoria Clipper III came by and stopped as well as a few other boats.  When we had them to ourselves, we could hear them gurgling and clicking at each other, it was pretty darn cool.  I swear they swam over just to check us out.

[weathergirl]

Just to clarify, my quivering OMG voice may have made it sound like I was frightened, but I was just SO EXCITED!  Perfect conditions on the water for seeing them too...you could hear all of their noises--farty noises of blowholes, clicking, etc.

[lokidog]

Here's the iink to the other video

http://youtu.be/DztThP-RKlk

And some more pics by our friend Alisa.

[KFhunter]

couple years ago I found myself on one of those puget sound tour boats that feed you a dinner and you ride around the sound with 50 or so other people...


anyways I was amazed how much those boats chased the orca's and how close they got.   They'd really race and jog around trying to get in position for the tourists.  I could see half a dozen boats all doing the same thing.

Kind of cool I guess, but I prefer them a good ways from me while I'm fishing salmon and not swimming all around my boat all day long     Orca's can sure mess up a good troll 

[bowhunterwa87]

That is awesome!!