Orca: killer whales of Alaska. Just outside Hoonah, South East Alaska, the call came - Orca! We were to watch these magnificent beasts for a long time. These resident Orca were clearly in hunting mode trying to catch the large number of salmon that were in the area....
A large male Type C Orca checking out the ice edge. We had sailed from the Ross Ice shelf into McMurdo Sound. We visited the historic huts of Scott and Shackleton (outstanding experience!) and then headed to the ice channel created by the icebreaker Polar Star to...
Orca. We had just seen this pod of Orca kill and devour a Stellar Sea Lion. Did one of them go on to eat a salmon?