Transient orcas
T88 & T87
Race Rocks, B.C.
Oct. 19, 2009
Photo by
Marie O'Shaughnessy
Oct. 19
The Ocean Magic at 12.15pm today Oct 19th picked up two Transient Orca whose ID were T 87, the male and T 88 , the female (see above photo). They were spotted east of Race Rocks and south of Victoria near Constance Bank. They had just made a kill before we arrived so we didn't see any real aggressive foraging behaviours while were with them. They were milling around for a while with fairly long dives and then they headed west toward Race Rocks. We didn't see any Humpbacks nor Porpoise on this trip - perhaps word was out that ' Transients ' were back in town. We did however see, several groups of sea lions cruising around which, for all intents and purposes the two Transients ignored.
Marie,Orca-Magic, Prince Of Whales, Victoria.
