Tuesday, August 13, 2019




No calls but orcas nearby

We continued to have calls throughout the night on Rubbing Beach and Critical Point. We believe they were the A5s/A30s on RB and the A30s/I15s on CRPT. At 5:38am, we heard blows outside going north with vocalizations on Local Left. We heard 6-8 blows, but because of the dense fog, we couldn't make out the exact number of fins in the pass. The group had cleared Blackney Pass by 5:58am, heading north into Blackfish Sound, where they foraged and vocalized for about 30 minutes. At 6:18am, we got a report from Megan at CP that there were 6-8 Orcas, including one male, who had just passed CP and were heading into Blackney. We heard the first blows at 6:29am, but still had zero visibility. They traveled fast through the Pass with no vocalizations. There was no visual or vocal confirmation of who this group might be. By 6:38am, the group had exited BP into Blackfish Sound. No vocalizations as of now, but we are listening!  

Orcalab
13 Aug 2019 10:03:23 PDT



Boat noise

Just after midnight a group of orcas began moving through Blackney Pass from Blackfish Sound. As this group approached Cracroft Point more blows were heard and tracked through Blackney, some of whom were not far off the Hanson Island shore. Just after 1am all the blows had cleared and we began to hear calls from the first group (some of the A30s) who had passed an hour earlier. Since then, boat noise and only briefly some distant calls.

OrcaLab
13 Aug 2019 02:07:04 PDT

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