Breaching Bremer Bay Killer Whales

Breaching Bremer Bay Killer Whales lit up the Southern Ocean today as we watched spectacular surface activity during Orca courtship behaviour. Journeying to the Bremer Canyon we were stopped by cheeky Common Dolphins who spent some time bow riding with us, a beautiful way to start the morning. Arriving in the Patch we could see an enormous oil slick spread out across the surface and dozens of Shearwaters, Storm Petrels and Albatross hovering. All of this activity but no Orca, it was time to go on the hunt and focus in on the movements of our apex predators. Looking carefully and following the signs, it took 45 minutes before Jade called out to our port side, “I think we have breaching Orca!’. All eyes scanned the horizon and we were amazed, Jade had spotted the distinctive plume of white water over a kilometre away and with a gentle rain obscuring the view. Suddenly, we had Orca surging towards the bow and amongst the pitter patter of rain were dozens of Orca racing towards us. We could recognise two differe