From Sta Barbara Harbor to Sta Rosa, into the Sta Cruz Channel, up to the Cave, then home. A cold day with very little wind. Sea lions, common dolpins, and about a dozen Orcas. What a day!
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Orcinus orca with rainbow spout spray.
Three Orcinus orca.
A male Orcinus orca (upper right) and several females.
If a camera was mounted on the dorsal fin of a big, adult Orcinus orca, this is what it would look like as it begins to dive.
Orcinus orca everywhere.
Dorsal fins of Orcinus orca.
Five Orcinus orca headed this way!
Just barely under the sea surface, an Orcinus orca is on its way up to take a breath.
It may look like one of those captive sea aquarium photographs, but this is a large wild, free range, organic male Orcinus orca right next to the Condor Express in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Orcinus orca with rainbow spout spray.
Orcinus orca with rainbow spout spray.
Orcinus orca with rainbow spout spray.
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