20 August Orcalab reports

08:51 PDT No orcas present.

All quiet this morning but we seem to be up and running. We lost track of the A30s around 10pm last when they were still in the Strait. We heard blows in Blackney heading south a short while later but it was never clear who they might be.

12:21 PDT Orcas near mics.
Sounds like some of the groups are coming back from the east. We are listening to A30s and A4 calls on CRPT hydrophone.

13:38 PDT Multiple pod calls audible.
The A30s, A11s, A8s and A73 are currently spread out in the Izumi area heading west but stopping to forage from time to time. The I15s are further back. We may not have mentioned but I41's dorsal fin has totally collapsed to the right. hopefully he is ok. he is 25 years old.

15:22 PDT Multiple pod calls audible.
The A11s, A73 & the A8s are going west up the Hanson Island shore near Big Bay. A73 was with a group of dolphins for a while. Some A30s are way back east of Boat Bay We think perhaps A39 travelled west maybe as far as the CP area but ? let the others continue. Still pretty foggy.

16:46 PDT Multiple pod calls audible.
Just after 3pm A13 pulled the others over to the Vancouver Island shore from Big Bay after being surrounded by dolphins. The groups continued up to blinkhorn and beyon where they milled about for a while. We heard A30 calls off Critical Point about this same time. right now the A11s have apparently turned toward Weynton Pass from the Wastell Islands just east of Telegraph Cove.

17:38 PDT Distant calls audible.
We have started to hear the A30s on CP again. Are they coming from the Izumi area once again.

19:47 PDT Distant calls audible.
We've been hearing distant calls from the A4s on the Flower Island hydrophone... sounds like the A11s & A8s have headed north through Weynton Pass. Meanwhile, the A30s are headed back to the east & are mid-strait, off the east end of Hanson Island
Orcas (may be) approaching cameras.

20:11 PDT The A30s are milling off of CP just as we began to hear I15s coming from the east. they are probably past Boat Bay on their way west.

20:48 PDT Superb sounds!!
My the I15s sound great tonight. Even the A30s are not interupting.

20:58 PDT Superb sounds!!
Ah yes the A30s too!

23:38 PDT Orcas rubbing on the shore bottom.
And the rub goes on!