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Airship | Keku Islands to Portage Bay (and so many more whales)

by Laura Domela 12 Aug 16:09 PDT
Whale - Airship | Keku Islands to Portage Bay © Laura Domela

We left our beautiful spot this morning and headed out into Frederick Sound assuming we'd see more whales, which we did. I got this cool shot of a nice white fluke, and our friend Andrea had an ID super quick for me (see photo caption).

The further we went, the more whales we saw...HUGE groups of them together! We had to slow up and divert several times to avoid them, but finally came upon a large group bubblenet feeding together, so we decided to hang out and watch. This group had maybe 20 whales and they were SUPER active....breaching and tail and fin slapping, and of course bubblenet feeding. One breached VERY close to Airship but this is all I managed:

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