Taken earlier today from Tower Point. Perfect weather. We saw the whale watching boats around 11. Gary and I were both home today. We dropped everything and raced to the park, arriving as the whales were coming around Haystock Islets. The same group of transient orcas Gary had seen before, with the addition of two unknowns for a total of five individuals, two were small and looked pretty young. They even did a bit of jumping and splashing. The islets in this photo are actually quite close to shore. There is one big bull with a dorsal fin that must be 6 feet tall. Watching him emerge from the water in the bay near shore took my breath away. It was like that scene in Jaws where the shark is in the pond and you see the dorsal cutting through the surface just offshore, and the little boy is playing in the sand in the foreground. (“Martin — Michael’s in the pond.”) Then the shark eats some wayward member of the Kennedy family in a rowboat. Great movie. Not as good as real orcas though!

Alright, back to work everyone!