Written by the same guy and the illustrations makes it seem like they are.

My heart dropped when it says on the flap “Miracle is alive, well, and the delight of thousands of visitors to Sealand” 😭😭😭 sobs hysterically
The book is from the 70’s but it still aches.

On September 4th J-pod slowly made their way out of Admiralty Inlet and in along the west side of San Juan Island right at dusk. We were losing the sun quickly but there was just enough light for me to record them as they went by. Here’s a video recap of our very lucky encounter where we saw them passing through the calm water and beautifully colored sky. I hope you enjoy!

Cream soda and melon soda orcasss

He’s been tattooing for 30 years and said this is his first orca. I absolutely love it! Done by Luke Ray in Tri-Cities, WA

Inspiration from user on my last post to make a piece of baby Shamu as well 🤍 I used a reference of the moon on her birthday to use as the background. 🥹🤍 I have only recently started becoming interested in orcas and learning about them has both been beautiful and devastating (by how us humans have treated them 😭)

From Dr. Heike Vester, founder of the research organization Ocean Sounds:

We found two groups of orcas socialising, playing and mating not far from Bodø in the Vestfjord of Norway. Watching them, taking notes and pictures and collecting sound recordings (that is how we study whales in Ocean Sounds), we saw them feeding in between the social actions. The pictures later revealed that they were actually feeding on mackerels!
This is the first time we could document orcas feeding on mackerel in Norway and it fits our earlier observations in 2011 of orcas feeding on salmon. See our publication “First record of killer whales (Orcinus orca) feeding on Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in northern Norway suggests a multi-prey feeding type Heike Vester and Kurt Hammerschmidt. 
Again it shows how flexible orcas can be when it comes to food and they seem to be more opportunistic than in other areas in the world, for example North-West Pacific. This gives hope in very fast changing world🩵

Food is a critical part of orca cultures worldwide; some orca communities teach their young to focus on a highly specific food source, while others are less selective, although family groups within communities often have slightly different preferences. Like humans, orca culture is sophisticated yet dynamic, influenced by the knowledge of elders, changing environmental conditions, and individual personalities.

They are intelligent asf . They would probably eventually learn to farm food

Here’s a link to the group.

Was testing a new brush and she was on my mind. I had only recently learned her story and it truly broke my heart. they are so smart and intelligent, living in captivity is just cruel to me. 😭💔

There are places that seem to exist somewhere between reality and imagination. The Secret Pond is one of them, a quiet, hidden world where an orca rises gently from the water, surrounded by blooming lilies and floating leaves.

I wanted this painting to feel like discovering a place that perhaps was never meant to be found. The deep blue water, vibrant greens and soft pink flowers create a peaceful little world, while the orca brings a sense of wonder and curiosity to the scene.

Sometimes the most beautiful places are the ones we can only find in our dreams.

On 9/3/26, the J Pod came nearly all the way down to downtown Seattle area before flipping and heading back north. Sounds like the Ls and Ks were off Whidbey Island. So exciting to see them again!

There’s something so beautiful about watching a young orca discover the world around it, breaking the surface for the first time, and pausing for a moment, surrounded by the quiet movement of the ocean. The ocean can feel so vast, but beside it, this little one feels wonderfully small. And somehow, that makes the moment even more beautiful.

There’s something incredibly sweet about these quiet moments, when they’re still young, still discovering, and everything around them is new. I wanted this painting to feel like one of those fleeting moments we might all be lucky enough to witness one day out at sea.

Video footage does contain a PREDATION event, but I have flagged this in the video, so if you are a sensitive viewer - you know when to stop watching the killer whales.

The predation event includes the younger members from the 109Bs, including the 2 year old T109B6 - learning how to hunt from its older siblings.

ALL video taken from shore (land-based sighting). Includes the T069s + T109Bs.

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I did this a while ago but wanted to share. It was for a prompt my friends and I were doing. The prompt was clam, so I drew a young orca discovering a large clam deep below. :]