||| from Tracy McQueen |||

5:35 PM on [Saturday], Doe Bay looking east toward South Peapod Island, there are at least six whale hunting boats including Western Explorer II, Blackfish IV, Island Explorer 5, and Western Prince II.  I would swear on a stack of orcas that none of those vessels are keeping proper distance from the whales.

I’d also be interested to know how many folks on those jam-packed boats contract Covid-19. Don’t care about that so much but I am surely concerned about upwards of 150 people (ask me for the photos, I have them) tracking what I saw to be only one transient orca. 

I can’t begin to understand the thrill of shelling out upwards of $100 for the chance to snap gazillions of photos of these endangered and precious mammals.  But I gave up understanding these folks’ motives long ago. I just wish there was better oversight of the whale hunting operators.


 

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