On the return trip back to our final day on a 8 day Alaskan cruise abroad Celebrity Cruise lines.e did an excursion to view orca's off the coast of San Juan island. Our ship had docked for the day in British Columbia, Canada and we decided for our last excursion to book a trip to view the orca's off the coast of San Juan Island. I had never heard of San Juan Island other than the San Juan that was a United States territory. We set out on a boat ride that seemed to take forever. We kept riding along the coast line until the captain reduced the power in the engines and we just hovered 650 feet of erie cold black water. There was nothing stirring except for the occasional detached strand of kelp. We all of us waited with our eyes pealed for some semblance a tell-tale sign of an erect black and white dorsal fin. All of a sudden there was nothing but erie calmness over the water and then that calmness was shattered like glass with a swoosh of water was pushed through the blowhole of a resident orca whale. That site was the beginning a an amazing afternoon watching this beautiful mammal for the first time. It was hard to truly understand that this creature could be given such a moniker of a "killer whale."
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