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| Orcas in the distance on a very calm night |
There was a lot of cool wildlife viewing while on the boat. Since work usually wrapped up by 5 pm or earlier, we'd sometimes have time for sportfishing in the evening, which was a good time to spot whales. Here's some of the cool things we saw:
Killer whales and sperm whales. These are bad because they tend to take fish off the longline as we bring it up. They follow the boat, sometimes for days and eat our data. Not fun. But, kinda cool to see them so close. Sometimes there were less than 50 feet from the boat.
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| Sperm whale |
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| Sperm whale, diving |
Minke whales
Dall's porpoise
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| Dall's porpoise, riding the bow wake as we left Cordova |
Laysan and black-footed albatross (only the black-footed shown)
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| albatross coming in for a landing |
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| and another only getting up speed to fly away |
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| albatross and fulmar waiting for fish parts to wash overboard |
Storm petrel
A big lingcod
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| Just attached a satellite tag to a lingcod |
A skillfish - the closest relative to sablefish
Sea otters (these were in Cordova)
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