Friday 24 February Orca Day!

 Alarm at 6:15 though we are awake before then. Sunny and bright. No one else stirs in the campsite. We drive down to the quay and board the Whale Watching WA catamaran. Off we roar in heaving 3m swells. Quite early on a few people are poleaxed by sea sickness. Fortunately we seem fine. 

After 3 hours we still haven’t seen any orcas. But then we do. Two pods. Adults and youngsters playing. They swim upside down showing their white underbellies right underneath the boat and jump and splash. We are so close we can hear them whistling and clicking to one another  

We track the orca pods for a couple of hours and then make our way back via Glasse Island where we see some sea lions. 

We return to the quay after about 7 hours at sea. An amazing close encounter in the deep Southern Ocean with these beautiful creatures.