[CINC] CX Thursday April 2nd report - partial

[Sally Eagle]

Oo's off SCI
on the 1200 trip

ORCAS!!!!!!!!!!!! with on big daddy sporting a 6-foot dorsal.
I was on photo id and got a number of good shots. Mat and I were able to ID one of the big males from the ID book...seen in 1996. A baby was with the group, there actually were two groups, probably totally 12 or so, but they were joining and splitting apart and very active. The big male just cruised around on the perifery showing his massive dorsal. We were not able to get close enough to get a photo. Those animals are very impressive, graceful, beautiful and fast!

And, you know, we didn't see any whales on that trip and not one passenger complained or pointed that out! 

Apologies to Rae Emmett, I think she might have asked me to write this up as her computer was not available.
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