Small family, big diet: a Bigg’s Killer Whale road trip through the San Juans
Maxx | M/V Kestrel | August 31st 2024 | 2:00pm
Kestrel’s second tour of the day was incredible. The family of three Bigg’s Killer whales, the T018s, continued thy journey around Lopez and had now made their way up to Orcas islands eastern coastline. We found them by the Peapod islands and were almost immediately greeted with a spy hop (when a whale propels its face vertically out of the water) as birds buzzed around them. I only assume that this family was once again, feeding.
The T018s are...