Date: 28-May-2017

Sequence: 1

Encounter Number: 38

Enc Start Time: 19:38

Enc End Time: 20:08

Vessel: Orcinus

Observers: Dave Ellifrit, D. Giles, Collette Yee

Pods or ecotype:J  pod and L87

Location: Haro Strait

Begin Lat/Long: 48 35.14/123 12.23

End Lat/Long: 48 36.46/123 12.65

 

Encounter Summary:

After Jane Cogan called Dave at home in the early evening to report that she was hearing J pod calls on the Lime Kiln hydrophone, Dave, Giles, and Collette met down at Snug Harbor and left in the boat at about 1930. We arrived on scene off the south end of Kellett Bluff at 1938. J pod and L87 were in a resting formation with all the whales being in one tight group moving very slowly north with the tide. We left the whales heading north up Haro Strait off north Kellett Bluff at 2008 still in one tight slow moving group. All members of J pod and L87 were photographed.