Orca Whales in the Sound!

Oh My Goodness, didn't know how awesome it could be to take a boat load of cruise ship folks out on an Allen Marine Tour (my job). We were heading out into the sound today, our normal thing, when our Capt got word from the whale gods (aka another boat) that there may be Orca Whales in the sound. He changed course to head out by Low island and low and behold there they were! An entire family! Mama and baby, daddy, aunts, uncles and cousins. This is the most spectacular thing we can see because we do not see them very often, The crew gets just excited as the passengers and everyone cheers! Last time we saw a group of them was back at the beginning of the season in May. Today we think we saw 2 different groups of them and we found them on both of our tours so it was a treat for about 165 people that came off of the Westerdam cruise ship, Holland America , to take our Sea Otter and Wildlife tour. We did see a few Otters but we think most of them were hiding from the killer whales as that is their only predator . LOL Oops! Great day!