Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Orcas off the San Juan Islands

These small Orca's were off of the popular Lime Kiln park/viewing site off of the San Juan islands last week. Photo was taken with a Panasonic lumix fz3 at a 35mm focal length equivalent of 420mm, f4, 1/500th, at ISO 80.
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3 Comments:

Blogger Warren T. said...

Very cool, Ted! I hope to be able to see them in the wild, in-person one of these days.

--WT

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 12:34:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Ted M said...

Hi Warren, Gray whales are off the coast of Oregon, and all kinds I think are in Hawaii and Mexico.

They're really impressive. I have one photo where one out of a group of about 3 has his dorsal fin pointing the other way, which is interesting, not sure if he was just quick to turn around for some food, but most all of our photos have the whales swimming together in the same direction. I can't remember if they're visible off the coast of Ano Nuevo (sp)? but that is a pretty close drive for us.

Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 2:04:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

Hi Ted, we've seen our share of gray whales off Pt. Reyes Lighthouse and Pigeon Point Lighthouse, and all along the coast. We've never seen Orcas in the wild, however. Maybe someday...

--WT

Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 2:27:00 PM PDT  

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