Summer Field Season Ends

Hello,

Our summer field season ended last Friday the 21st. J Pod and the L2 sub-pod showed up to give us a warm send-off, coming within meters of the beach on 4 separate occasions over two days. We got some great shots of most of the new members of J Pod and some of the best video of the summer as well.

We are furiously working to incorporate all of the new information and images into our program this year. We have many schools already signed up and are eager to share with them what we learned.

We would love to bring the field to your classroom, so if you want to arrange a visit, head over to www.killerwhaletales.org and download a registration packet.

See you soon!

Jeff

J Pod off San Juan Island

Hi,

After a few days out west J pod returned to our waters over the weekend. They worked the west side pretty good and rumor has it that they have been harassing harbor porpoise again. This morning they took their time heading up the beach, taking time to forage and play. J19 and her calf J41 spent a good deal of time kelping, rolling over one and other, basically doing things that families do. One of them even did and incredibly slow spyhop right in front of me on the beach. If you ever have watched hot and tasty chocolate slowly slide down the side of your ice cream sundae, then you get a pretty good idea how long it took J19 to stick her head out of the water.

One of my best days this summer happened today!