Breaching is not a particular common behavior for the Orca in this area, but we had a day with lots of spyhopping and lots of breaching. And no rain!!
Breaching is a behavior the Southern Resident killerwhales do more often, to clean themselves from parasites, sort of like scratching themselves, where the Northen Resident have rubbing beaches - small round pebble beaches, where they will rub themselves on the small rocks. Two different behaviors, same result..
It looks so easy for these amazingly beautiful animals to jump out of the water, but truth is, it takes a lot of energy for them to jump out of the water like that..
And I'm not going to lie, I really love life up here, especially when the wildlife puts on a show like they sis today.
The orca has been absent in the area for a couple of days, and we have had to 'settle' for humpbacks...
But they came back with a vengeance today -
Our explanation for this was that they missed us when they were gone for a few days...
The real explanation could be that they had lots of good salmon these past days and have lots of energy..
I am still leaning towards the first one though... :)
Later in the day we went to hang out with some humpbacks and they also were breaching all over the place, and playing with sealions - good fun! and lots of action!
We are leaving for a three day camping trip tuesday morning, hopefully with good weather and lots of beautiful scenery, and of course great wildlife..
Stellar Sealion
Humpback playing
Humpback tailfluke
Surf scoters
Orca Breach
Orca calf
Orca Porpoising
Orca spyhop
1 comment:
Hej Jannie,
kan se at du nyder livet "over there". Man ser det i dine billeder, der er fantastiske som altid. Glæder mig til at se dig på tirsdag her på Strandbo, hvor vi knokler med indianerlejr og Bohus havefoto.
knus far
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