chase the light

90’s Journal flashback. This has nothing to do with today. I was just thinking about whales and remembered I had some footage of orcas that I shot a few years ago. The fantastic Kathleen and I flew up to Washington to camp and then hit a concert. I cut the footage out of a longer video of the visit to the San Juan Islands. [LINK] It’s really shaky as the boat was fairly small. This is the J-Pod of resident whales off the west coast of San Juan. The girls have small dorsals and pectorals while the boys can have huge ones. The large male seen is called “Ruffles” because the back edge of his dorsal fin looks like a potato chip. The pod is run by the dominant female. Much like a herd of elephants. There’s your Orca trivia for today. Cool, I even have diagrams. I can’t begin to tell you how much I love orcas.