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Published: 2006-09-25 03:59:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 1329; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 13
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My favourite photo out of all my BC pics. An R-Pod mother with her young (I'd estimate around 2 years old) calf. These two were travelling with the W1-Pod and stayed near our boat for about half an hour. I love the clarity and detail on the calf's face, and the open blowholes
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What an incredible moment captured. The detail is incredible!
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Thank you! This is still one of my favourite photos
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Fantastic! a big dream of mine is to get to see wild orcas well wild whales overall but mostly Orcas ^^
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Thank you! I hope you get to see them one day
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^^ your welcome! Maybe someday who knows
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I just saw them in the wild a week ago for the first time, I never got pics even close to how good this one is! I never knew where they were gonna pop up and it seems in this photo you had it so well centered and captured it right at the best moment where they were mostly out of the water! Simply amazing! XuX
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Thank you very much! I have the benefit of being on quite a few whale-watching tours before this, so you sort of get a rhythm for it. Of course they still jump where you least expect them XD I hope you had fun on your whale-watching!
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Nice to see the R's are still going! I have shots of the A30 matriline and the A25 Matriline, from which Patches, corky 2, yaka and nepo are from. All thats left is Surge(A61) Nodales (A51) and her calf (A85)
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The Rs are going very, very strong! They've got the biggest pod in the Northerns, they have huge numbers. That's fantastic that you got to see them! It's so great that Nodales finally has a calf
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I love the A30s, especially Blackney and Pointer, the brothers lol
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R-Pod? W-Pod? Ive never heard of them! o: Are they transients?
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Nope, they're Northern Residents, they're just not that common. The Rs have the largest pod in the Northern Residents actually. The Ws are made of only 3 whales - a mother and her two adult sons.
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Wow, really? Thats awsome! I only know of the Southern resident pods, thanks for teaching me something new! xD
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very nice photo
hm, and I was wondering, what does it mean that "BC"?....
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Thanks
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This is my favorite photo of yours. You do so well at capturing the wild orcas. Beautiful!
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Thanks
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this is incredible. my wild orcas look so far away even dough i zoomed it. i can't complain because it was a single use camera i didn't want my newer camera wet from the whales. great close up capture i love it how the water looks grey.
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oh my gosh!! wow!! I've never seen orcas in the wild before..I really have to go up to Johnstone Straight one summer...
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Wow, this is incredible! You're so lucky to get to have captured this. I like how the water looks gray, kinda like stone. I probably would've cropped off that top part that shows the bit of that dorsal fin, to kinda clean it all up. Big 
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