Anyway back to my day...after a morning out with the duskies i returned to continue my land duties, then my ears pricked up as i heard the word 'orca' on the radio. I havn't seen them for about a month now, they're were back, and on a Saturday again, its Orca day! I asked Cara from resrvations if she had heard it too, she said, no but she'd listen out!
Then Cara came running through grabbed me and said "lets ask the boss if we can get out there" Ed was also on our side, Dennis said " well if you can persuade south bay at the jetty to get the rubber duck (dinghy boat) ready then we'll see"...I left Cara to work her magic while i continued with land, i then had a meeting when suddenly my phone started to ring, texts coming through, had to cut the meeting short, WE WERE OFF TO CATCH UP WITH THE BLACK AND WHITES!
the next thing i know we're whizzing down to south bay, jumping into a dinghy and putting on our life jackets...we picked up speed and squeeled and screamed at what was happening. The sky was grey and the sea slight. At first we stopped and found a dead dusky at the surface, being eaten by wondering albatross, giant petrels, cape petrels and blue shark. The blue sharks were stunning as they swam circles beneath the surface of the water.
We continued on and sure enough spotted a huge dorsal fin of a bull orca. We were at there level on this little boat, they were right beside us, and below us, just a wicked moment i will never forget. They were headed south and moving quickly...it was awesome. I managed to get a few pictures of the whole journey...
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