Up Close and Personal with Orcas

After weeks of being sidelined with travel and bad weather, we managed to squeeze in a quick trip out in between early morning fog and afternoon winds.  Was a pleasant surprise to run into a large pod of transient Orcas apparently feeding on a grey whale kill - the pod stayed for hours swimming around while feeding, and coming up to each of the boats to check things out.

Ospreys

Spent a couple hours on the way home visiting the Osprey nest - luckily caught the Ospreys mating, followed by seeing the male go off fishing and come back with dinner.

Cold Water Snapshots

Winter usually means 2 things for diving - crappy weather and cold, clean water.  I've been able to sneak in a few dives over the last couple of wks in between storms and managed to get a few shots.

 

Moon Hunting

I found out there's a new thing - a Super Blue Blood moon.  A super-moon is a full-moon that coincides with the moon's closest point to Earth in its orbit (so it's big).  A blue moon is the second full-moon that falls into the same Gregorian calendar month.  A blood moon is a full lunar eclipse (because of the reddish tint that the moon takes on while eclipsed).

Tonight, all three are occurring - I'm headed out for a night of shooting to see what I come up with.