Close Encounters with Killer Whales

First off, for optimum viewing of this ten minute-long, High Definition video montage, select the 'Subtitles and Captions Turned On' setting on your device.
This video montage makes the case for land-based viewing of Bigg's Killer Whales ( aka Transient Orcas ) in the Salish Sea, off the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, where my wife and I live. Land-based viewing requires patience and perseverance, but can be extremely rewarding, costs virtually nothing, and does not harm the whales in any way. To practise it, all you need is a keen eye, a camera or cellphone, and perhaps a pair of binoculars.
Highlights of the montage include T060D and T060E ( two brothers ) hugging the shores of Haro Strait, the T069s, first in Cadboro Bay off Cadboro Point, where T069C spyhopped right in front of me, and an Orcas at Sunset clip.
Bigg's are classified as Threatened under Canada's Species at Risk Act ( SARA ). They are a different ecotype from endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKWs), whose critical habitat also includes the Salish Sea. I have many videos of Resident pods, but as they prefer to hug the other side of Haro Strait, off San Juan Island, where they like to feed on salmon in the deep canyons just offshore, the quality of my SRKW clips is not great. In sharp contrast, Bigg's feed primarily on seals. sea lions, and other marine mammals.
The videos in this collection were filmed exclusively from land, in the territory of the Lekwungen people, using either a Nikon Coolpix P1000 camera with 125X optical zoom, or a Canon PowerShot SX60 camera with 65X optical zoom.
One of my UA-cam Playlists includes over one hundred and twenty Bigg's whale videos, in which twenty-eight separate pods are identified, including the T109As- the matriline of Brave Little Hunter, aka the previously-stranded Zeballos orca, who lost her mother recently. This montage consists of what I feel are among the best of these Encounters over the years.
The montage includes two clips of the Zeballos calf ( T109A3A ), travelling with her pod. Here's a link to a longer, composite video of Encounters I had with those same T109As, on two occasions in 2023- • If You See Brave Littl... I also filmed them in 2022, but the quality of that video is not very good.
Lastly, here's a link to my website, which serves as a digital repository for a good chunk of my professional output, scholarly articles and advocacy work, spanning six decades: sites.google.com/site/worldoc... One example of my work is a study I did in 1982 for the FAO in Rome, documenting national marine mammal legislation worldwide. Another is a Submission I made to DFO in 2002 regarding regulation of the local whalewatch industry. Finally, in 2006 I was commissioned to write a report on the impact of untreated Victoria sewage on SRKWs. These and many other reports of mine are available for free download from my website.

[@osmia]

I don't think I have ever turned on CC while watching your videos before. Glad I did for this one

[@GeraldFGraham]

Glad you did. It's the first one I have added captions to.