Killer whales while salmon fishing from my kayak in West Van

Killer whales while salmon fishing from my kayak in West Van on Sunday 2020 05 17. Had a great time!

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Very cool, thanks for sharing.   Always great to see whales while paddling, especially up close.

excellent.  top of my bucket list to encounter them from a kayak here 'on or off' our coast (a transient pod swims up the Siuslaw river now and then).  just excellent.

Very cool!

Very Cool, had a similar thing happen on opening day of rockfish in Half Moon Bay, CA. I had a gray whale surface and had no idea it was near by. All of a sudden I heard PAAAWAHOOSH!  Scared the crap out of me as I had my back to it. I t was 50 or so yards away. Most foul breath I have ever smelled.

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing that. A wonderful experience, I'm sure.

Way too cool!!!! 

That is spectacular, they were so close!

Oregon folks who are interested in seeing Orca, me and my girlfriend saw a pod last sunday (06/07/2020) in Tillamook bay. They moved in on the incoming tide (swimming fast!), then came out on the outgoing tide. I was a bit intimidated, not going to lie. I don't know how long they stick around, I'd assume it depends on how much food is around. We spotted them around crab harbor, but they went in pretty far towards the Trask.

Sorry for the video quality, I was much further away!
https://imgur.com/a/gIHxEDg

my wife wonders if one of those can unintentionally knock me over when he surfaces.

Cool !

Love that 3rd picture!!!!!

my wife wonders if one of those can unintentionally knock me over when he surfaces.

I was accidentally way too close to a Puget Sound pod of adults and very young calves when they started surfacing everywhere around me and they wanted nothing to do with me.

C_Run and Ms. _Run and I found ourselves in the middle of a large, spread-out pod of gray whales one day.  I lost count of how many different individuals were around us at 29, and many were within 10 yards of us - one was within a foot of me (my mistake).  None came close to intentionally or unintentionally touching our kayaks as long as we stayed still (which is what I didn't do).

One of our members has a great video from Depoe Bay about a 10+ pucker-factor encounter:



surf12foot got to play with a juvenile gray at Sunset Bay one day.  "Oo-oo, he's so cute!" (even if we didn't know the little one's gender).

I'm always more worried about encountering a boat than a whale. 

Thanks for sharing!  Very cool.

3rd picture:
locals came to me in the kayaks latter and after e-mail exchange, I got these pictures. That was cool too.