Distant calls audible. A lovely meeting of families! The A54s and the A25s finally came back from the east. They are meeting up with the A50s and the I4s who after travelling through Blackney Pass returned to Johnstone Strait via Weynton Pass and travelled east. The meeting is taking place off the western end of the Reserve just now. OrcaLab 19 Aug 2019 19:23:46 PDT No calls but orcas nearby Quite the morning! At 9:35am while checking the Main rubbing beach hydrophone there were distant A30 calls - just a few- enough for us to figure that the whales were on their way to west. By 10:22am the calls were now on the Robson Bight system but still not close. Twenty minutes later the Cliff informed us that the A50s were close to the Cracroft side under their observation site. Another group, also going west, was just offshore. Another hour went by during which the whales came into view of CP. At 11:42am the I4s and A72 were off CP. With quite a bit of milling/ foraging the whales turned into Blackney Pass and began to travel north with the last of the ebbing tide. They were in a hurry or perhaps carried along with the ebb. They made quick progress until just before Blackfish Sound where they stopped and collectively foraged. just before 1pm they were all in Blackfish Sound. After a few excellent calls (despite the boat noise) they continued to Bold Head. This is where we lost them so we are waiting for the next chapter which might include clues as to the whereabouts of the A54s and A25s! The T19s with T18 were in Queen Charlotte Strait this morning. OrcaLab 19 Aug 2019 14:31:19 PDT A lot can happen in twelve hours! The whales pretty much continued calling through the early hours of the morning in Johnstone Strait. Eventually it became clear that the whales had turned sometime between 11pm and 2:20am. At this time, some of the A30s came closer to the eastern portion of the Bight. By 3am there were whales off the Main rubbing beach. They became excited as the various groups came close as well. We heard rubs a couple of times and lots of close calls from the I4s, more A30s and then the A25s. The whales echo located almost continuously. This went on until around 4:30am when the calls became more distant as the whales moved off to the east. We last heard calls till about 5am. It is a beautiful sunny day here. No fog!!! Calm seas.  OrcaLab 19 Aug 2019 09:57:27 PDT