{"id":4868,"date":"2011-10-01T21:53:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T04:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2011-10-01T21:53:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T04:53:35","slug":"stumbling-on-orcas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2011\/10\/01\/stumbling-on-orcas\/","title":{"rendered":"Stumbling on orcas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around 3:30pm this afternoon, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2011\/09\/28\/what-does-a-sprained-foot-have-to-do-with-trust\/\">hobbling around<\/a> on a dog walk at the Dallas Road walkway that borders the cliffs on the Juan de Fuca Strait, the spouse noticed that 2 or 3 commercial whale watching boats had stalled their engines really close to shore, right near Clover Point. They were quickly joined by several private vessels &#8211; three sail boats and an outboard. Well, must be some Orcas just under the water!<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, they appeared, spouting and spewing &#8211; about half a dozen. By the time I got around to taking the photo, below, the mini-flotilla (which periodically would start up to follow the pod, then turn off engines, then start up again, etc.) had reached Finlayson Point and was dispersing. In between, the Orcas put on a major show &#8211; I swear the lead mammal had a show-biz complex: when the shore was truly ringed by scores of land-based viewers and the flotilla had grown to six or seven vessels, he or she splashed up a storm.<\/p>\n<p>All of it was preceded by the most delicate ballet of the finely-nuanced sort, with the junior members showing discrete bits of fin and flute (white underneath &#8230;how odd). But when Big Mama (or Daddy) got going, the small fry moved out of sight until s\/he was done. Loop-de-loop, up into the air, twirl, flip on the back, dive in nose first. Rinse. Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>It was really joyful.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much to enjoy here. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 6px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20111002-nuu7d9yct496x618dujmxp9bnu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around 3:30pm this afternoon, hobbling around on a dog walk at the Dallas Road walkway that borders the cliffs on the Juan de Fuca Strait, the spouse noticed that 2 or 3 commercial whale watching boats had stalled their engines really close to shore, right near Clover Point. They were quickly joined by several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[31181],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scenes_victoria","tag-orcas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}