Post by: lokidog on August 20, 2014, 06:12:26 PM
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 (http://youtu.be/HirOAFB33Fw)
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Post by: lokidog on August 20, 2014, 10:33:42 PM
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 (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. :chuckle:
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.
Post by: lokidog on August 20, 2014, 10:38:17 PM
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.
Post by: weathergirl on August 21, 2014, 09:35:16 AM
Post by: lokidog on August 22, 2014, 09:54:15 PM
http://youtu.be/DztThP-RKlk (http://youtu.be/DztThP-RKlk)
And some more pics by our friend Alisa.
Post by: KFhunter on August 22, 2014, 10:27:11 PM
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 :chuckle: Orca's can sure mess up a good troll
Post by: bowhunterwa87 on August 22, 2014, 10:37:14 PM
Post by: lokidog on August 23, 2014, 12:33:26 AM
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 :chuckle: Orca's can sure mess up a good troll
Yes, the whale boats do seem to be on them almost constantly. I wish they would shut their engines off when drifting nearby like all of us smaller boats did. The first encounter was much more enjoyable being able to actually hear the whales vocalizing.
The funny thing with them and fishing is that we always seemed to catch more fish as the Orcas rolled through, probably because they were following the big school of fish I guess.
There is a group that wants to close down all of SW San Juan Island to boat traffic within a half mile of shore, including sail and kayaks, idiots... anyways, they would accomplish the goal of less harassment IMO if they simply put a speed limit of 5 mph within 1/2 mile of shore. I'd be fine with that as we could still fish and the whale boats wouldn't be buzzing them all day in there. There would still be the NA boats blowing through the pods though, unfortunately. >:(
Post by: runamuk on August 23, 2014, 01:06:10 AM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on September 02, 2014, 01:49:58 PM
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.
Seems they like to check out boats! These came right to us one day up on Vancouver Island. First we thought oh crap! But they went right under us.
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Post by: wildweeds on September 06, 2014, 09:45:30 PM
Fished San Juan this afternoon and had Orcas swimming by almost the entire time. Too bad the fish weren't as cooperative.