Wednesday, October 15th

This morning Captain Brad and naturalist Kaylin ventured out on a clear, calm sea topped with hundreds of birds to the horizon. The water being a little quieter than usual, we search for a while, but none the less came across some transient killer whales. They were stalking two stellar sea lions. The black fins swarmed around their little brown heads, we thought for sure they were goners. But the prey must have put up a good fight because soon we had one exhausted sea lion swirling around our boat, close enough to touch our port then starboard to port to starboard. Coming to the surface, he gave us a look of desperation with a big breath. After the coast was clear, the sea lion swam away and we observed the tripod of orca's: T44, T41, and T41A. Their desired prey got away and we watched them sail out to find another catch.