Time warp

I finally have a little time to give an update to my trip.

The time up here in wildlife heaven seems to have its own life. I feel like I have only been here for a short while and yet it seems as though I never left this place last fall.

Finally after a week with overcast skies and heavy wind, the weather cleared up and hit 29 degrees. I spent 3 days on a big boat, sailing up a stunning inlet called Knight Inlet. A place with extraordinary scenery, turqoise water, mountains that shoot up straigt from the water, impressive waterfalls, abandoned logging camps and ghost villages. All subject to some interesting photography, so as you can imagine I shot every angle there was of all the worn down houses.
Today I have had the - for now - most fantastic Orca experience.
Absolutely on my top 3 list of awesome days up here!

We were in the boat, watching a pod of orcas and they were all over the place, going left and right, taking long dives and we had absolutely no idea where they would come to the surface next. All of a sudden they popped up right next to our boat, only about three meters from us, circling around us, spyhopping, and they stayed there for 30 minutes. They were lying on the surface, completely still and peaceful, just breathing heavily and looking at us. One came right up to the boat, almost touching the front.
Those 30 minutes were absolutely stunning and special.
My heart was racing, and the feeling of being so close to them is hard to explain, but I wish that you could all have been here to witness this with me.

To top it off we went looking for humpback whales and found not only one, but 6 of them, and one came pretty damn close to our boat, and those guys are huge.....
Also we had a great dolphin moment today where 50 or more pacific whitesided dolphins passed us 4 times in high speed.
We found and photographed a Minke whale that hasn't yet been seen in this area.. If you get the first photos of both the left and the right side of the whales back and dorsal fin, you actually get to name it...
Anyways, thats all for now.
Enjoy the photos :)



Orca saying hello


Unidentified minke

Curious orca

Surf Scoters

Baby orca spyhop

Pacific whitesided dolphin - under water

Knight Inlet

Someones family - someones life

Abandoned hotel on Minstrel Island

Baby bald eagle in the sunset

Stellar Sealions in sunset

Stallar Sealions enjoying the sunset

Humpback tail fluke in the sunset - so 80's

Orca

Tail fluke - Humpback whale

Guests on the zodiac wathing Dahls porpoises

Fin of a humpback whale

Harbour seal

Bald eagle in the rain

Grizzly mother and cub playing

Grizzly mother and cub

Grizzly mother and cub, playing

Bald Eagle takeoff