Whales in puget sound2/29/2024 ![]() photos by Kat Martin, December 11, 2023 Especially since they are critically endangered. I was always one step behind these whales up until I caught them north of Fox Spit. I ended up being wrong so my nearly 300 mile round trip day began. I thought I’d catch the 05:00 ferry to Vashon and carry out a hunch I had with K pod. I also got to listen to these whales on the hydrophone for nearly six hours straight. They traveled up the Camano side and into Saratoga Passage. For starters, I got to see K Pod today! I’ve never really seen these whales before, so this was a rare treat. So many things both didn’t and did work out how they should’ve. K37 Rainshadow - K12 Sequim - K45 Prosper & K20 Spock - IDs by Rachel Haight, Orca Network photos by Charvet Drucker, December 11, 2023 Mon, Dec 11 - Possession Sound & Saratoga Passage (K Pod) - K33 Tika - Getting to watch K Pod today was pretty amazing! Many close passes on Camano throughout the day. They were very chatty, so in case you missed it, here is a short clip! Link to clip. SOUTHERN RESIDENTS (fish-eating ecotype) -Mon, Dec 11 - Swanson Channel (J Pod) - On the morning of December 11th at least J-Pod was heard on the Swanson Channel hydrophone hosted by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, and they later went north through Active Pass into the Strait of Georgia. We received a report from earlier this morning of orcas in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca heading northwest given that the whales were between Admiralty Inlet and San Juan Island and that there haven't been any reports of K-Pod in Puget Sound yet this morning, it's possible it's K-Pod! -Orca Behavior Institute K20's nineteen-year-old son, K38, was close by, trailing behind them…” Read more here at Center for Whale Research Encounter #73. The first whale they approached was a young animal that Mark suspected was the newest member of the pod, K45, and a moment later, K20 surfaced alongside to confirm it was her. Moments later, they saw several spread-out whales moving steadily westbound and confirmed the K pod. SOUTHERN RESIDENTS (fish-eating ecotype) -Tue, Dec 12 - Strait of Juan de Fuca (K Pod) - Excerpt from the Center for Whale Research Encounter #73: “At 1450 ~ 3.5 nm southeast of Race Rocks, Mark slowed the boat down when he got within a mile of where Gord figured he saw them last, and George soon spotted a bull on the horizon.
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