A couple of weeks ago, Jeff called me excitedly to tell me there were orcas in the channel. I hopped in the car and drove down to Sandy Beach. He told me they were heading that way, but I was afraid I had missed them. Right when I got frustrated that I wasn't go to see them, they showed up! About twelve of them in two separate pods. Here are some shots I got. Not very good, because I was screaming with delight, and I was trying to look at them and take pictures of them at the same time. A rare, but magical Juneau moment.
I know some of the orcas might be hard to see in the photos, but trust me it was awesome. My comments are underneath each photo.
This is one of the first shots I got. They would surface about every five seconds or so. Sometimes it was just their dorsal fins.
Little fins are the babies, and the big fins (I assume, of course) are the mamas and papas. According to wikipedia, the male dorsal fins are almost twice the size of the females. So the pods could have been a couple of little families.
Orca spraying.
Little family of fins.
Surfacing!
Pod/family.
This one is SO Sea World!
Little family. Big Mountain.
If you look closely, you can see one little family on the left, and one orca all the way to the right.
One dorsal fin, waving goodbye.
xo
Alli
wow that must have been amazing! the only ones i've seen were at sea world :)
ReplyDeleteCool!! Orcas are so magical!! :) We went whale watching a few summers ago here on the Pacific and it was amazing to see them surface. Love the shot with the mountain in the background, too!
ReplyDeleteSeeing the pictures Above makes me miss my time in Alaska even more!
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