orca-awesome

If you're in need of a meditative minute and thirty seconds worth of peaceful sunset/ocean views, might I suggest this little clip of the orca pod swimming beside our boat earlier this week?

Please excuse my shaky hands -- I was so deeply in awe of what I was witnessing I could hardly contain my excitement and gratitude. There was something about watching these powerful creatures effortlessly travel through the water that moved me to tears. I have been whale watching many times in my life, with great memories specially of breeching, tail waving humpbacks, but considering how mysteriously brilliant this particular breed is (and the haunting knowledge of their horrible captive lives courtesy of watching Blackfish) I never imagined I'd have the opportunity to see them in their natural habitat. So close. For an hour. With babies. I'm so lucky that B was equally in awe of the orcas (minus the tears), and was game to leap out of bed with me the moment our captain came on the intercom to tell us in his delightful French accent "Good Evening dear passengers....orcas....port side! port side! WOW WOW!"  Or at least that's all I heard in my mad dash, anyway...

It's a bit breezy in the film, but if you listen carefully you can hear them breathing at the water's surface :) You can also hear me "bugging out". This was taken around 11pm, so you'll notice the incredible sunset, which never actually fully goes down in the summer. It was all kind of unreal amazing...

No filter necessary, amirite?


In Gratitude,

Trish