No orcas present. So the A30's spent a nice amount of time being vocal on the Flower island hydrophone and calls became louder and then quieter again. We had a report around 16:45 from JD on Tensing that he had spotted the whales at Bold head. They had no real direction at this point so we assumed they may be catching some fish. By 17:45 JD reported that he was leaving the whales as they were heading North from from Bold head. We hadn't heard any calls in a while and we stopped the recording at around 6pm. A nice busy day for us all here at the lab but i do hope the A30's come back with some more friends!  Megan  12 Jul 2019 18:13:43 PDT Superb sounds!! After a brief forage at the entrance to Blackney Pass the A30's and A61 decided to head to the west. At 13:15pm they were passing Telegraph Cove on the Vancouver Island side. We shortly later overheard on the radio that they headed into Beaver Cove. At 14:45 we started to hear calls on the Critical point hydrophone that was echoing to Cracroft point. By 14:52 the calls were becoming more steady and clear but by 15:00 they had stopped. However, by 16:00 we started picking up lots of calls on the Flower Island hydrophone. No sign of orca yet but we are waiting and listening.. The Lab  12 Jul 2019 16:34:03 PDT No calls but orcas nearby The A30's are back! At around 7am this morning we had a report from Kate at Bare point that the orca just left the beaches spread out heading east. Their thoughts were the A30's plus maybe more. We began to hear A30 calls on the flower island hydrophone at 8:45am. They shortly went pretty quiet after that for a long time. At 10:18am there were faint calls on the local left hydrophone, then at 10:22 we heard calls again on the Flower island hydrophone. At 10:29 we had a report from the Columbia 3 that a group of 7 orcas were spread from the Swanson shoreline to the Hanson shoreline heading east one mile off of Flower island. We spotted the first group on the Sealion camera at 10:43am. They entered Blackney Pass into our view around 11am. The lead group was the A54's that were split into two groups that came together around Parsons light. A61 was on his own followed by the A50's including A72 and her baby. They cleared from Blackney pass around 11:24am and we spotted them on the Cracroft Point camera at 11:25 headed East. They formed one big group and then quickly split and began to forage. They are currently still foraging in the tide rip at the entrance to Blackney pass in the slack current. We shall see what happens now that the tide has turned to an ebb.  The Lab  12 Jul 2019 11:43:22 PDT