On January 27th our Head Naturalist Jackie Hildering was heading out on a scubadiving trip when she spotted a group of Orca.  Jackie quickly recognized that these were transient orca and was able to identify three of a group of at least 8 orca as T170, T171 staying close and T54.  Other animals later ID included T054 and T058 and T140 and T140B.

This was a very exciting sighting as getting a chance to view these orca this close inshore and be able to photograph them is pretty rare.  To our knowledge T170 and T171 have never been seen this far inshore before. 

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