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Jacques Cousteau

Residents, Transients and More Transients

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We viewed them for a while then moved on in search of a humpback whale. The one that was in our area earlier was no longer with anyone. I heard there were a pair of humpback whales in San Juan Channel, so we headed that direction.

We viewed the Humpback Whales until it was time to head back to the dock.

On the second tour, we headed for the T46B’s including T46B1B, also known as Casper and T’luk. However, we stopped off to see T49A’s first. The big male in this group is T49A1, who is 19 years old.

On this tour, I had a High School classmate Dianne and her husband Ray touring with us.

Then we moved down the channel to see the T46B’s. When it was time to head back to the harbor, I did not want to leave. The whales were breaching and spy hopping and celebrating their kill.

My third tour had us going right back to the T46B’s to see more of Casper and his family. More celebrating was taking place. After we were there for a while the T46’s who had been up north sprinted down the strait to catch up with the T46B’s.

Another beautiful sunset and a great end to a great day viewing Residents, Transients and More Transients

 

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