Want photo guide for Orca whales
Mar 1, 2020 15:00:44 #
I am planning a trip to the Pacific Northwest this summer. Will be in Vancouver, Canada. Would like a recommendation for a private photo guide to find the Orca Whales as well as maybe the grizzlies and eagles. Hope someone out there has had a good experience that they could share and recommend. Appreciate any help. Thank you. Terry in Indy.
Mar 2, 2020 07:31:02 #
banders26
Loc: Illinois
Search on tripadvisor for whale watching. We did this a couple of years ago and had a excellent time. We saw Orcas, Humpbacks, and walruses. The Orcas were feeding at the time this made for a unique sighting of Orcas in the hunt. If you take the fairy to Vancouver there are hotels right by the docks.
Mar 2, 2020 07:48:03 #
We use a company called Vancouver Whale Watch. They were great with getting us to the humpbacks. We did not see any Orcas at the time we were there last fall. Here is their website: https://vancouverwhalewatch.com/.
Mar 2, 2020 07:52:19 #
I would use auto ISO, 1/500th or faster, f8 and check your histogram. if the whites are exposed properly you've got it.
Mar 2, 2020 09:30:08 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
Most tour boat outfits can get you close … if the Orcas are there.
Mar 2, 2020 09:44:43 #
Mar 2, 2020 10:04:15 #
gvarner wrote:
Most tour boat outfits can get you close … if the Orcas are there.
How close? I believe the nearest you are allowed to get is 100 metres; 200 metres if you're in the path of the traveling whales or orcas.
See: https://princeofwhales.com/about-us/blog/new-distance-guidelines-for-whale-watching/
Mar 2, 2020 10:26:51 #
The closeness referenced is true, but what can happen (and it has happened to us twice) is that the whales come to you. On one trip a mother and calf found us interesting and played around our boat for half an hour. During that time, the Captain said he could not start the engines an move until they were at least 100 yards away. On another trip, we had just finished snorkeling and had gotten back on the obat when a humpback was coming straight toward the boat, dove under the boat and came up on the other side.
Again, we could not move until is was "out of range". So while you can't get closer than 100 yards from them, they can and often do get closer than that to you.
While not a great photo, it does show the closeness of the whale to the boat.
Again, we could not move until is was "out of range". So while you can't get closer than 100 yards from them, they can and often do get closer than that to you.
While not a great photo, it does show the closeness of the whale to the boat.
Mar 2, 2020 11:17:10 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
Morning Star wrote:
How close? I believe the nearest you are allowed to get is 100 metres; 200 metres if you're in the path of the traveling whales or orcas.
See: https://princeofwhales.com/about-us/blog/new-distance-guidelines-for-whale-watching/
See: https://princeofwhales.com/about-us/blog/new-distance-guidelines-for-whale-watching/
The whales are free to come to you and that would be "really close". Boats have to stop and shut down when this happens.
Mar 2, 2020 11:46:12 #
Orca Network is the best way to keep up on them in the Puget Sound. I just started following them last Summer and have had great fun! For Grizzlies you'd best head for Galcier Nat. Park.
https://www.facebook.com/OrcaNetwork/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
https://www.facebook.com/OrcaNetwork/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
Mar 2, 2020 11:54:07 #
Mar 2, 2020 12:04:38 #
Oldnintheway wrote:
Just a few quick shots from shore.
Great shots! Where exactly were you on land?
Mar 2, 2020 12:48:56 #
I have better photos. Just grabbed those in a hurry. I'm pretty sure these were taken from Illahee State Park, Bremerton.
Mar 2, 2020 12:57:27 #
Oldnintheway wrote:
I have better photos. Just grabbed those in a hurry. I'm pretty sure these were taken from Illahee State Park, Bremerton.
Thanks. My son lives in Bremerton, and I’ll be visiting him in July. Will check it out!
Mar 2, 2020 13:17:39 #
I had a great bear watching experience with campbellriverwhalewatching.com out of Campbell River
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