In grade eight I went on a school trip to the Gulf Island, which are along British Columbia's coast. The highlight of the trip was meant to be sailing, but when we heard that a pod of Orca whales were in the area we dropped everything to go find them. Our captain had connections with the captain of a whale sight seeing company, so quickly we found a large pod of whales called the 'J-pod' and followed them for the majority of the day.
The next day we found out about another Orca, T-14 a large male transient and went to find him. T-14 was capture in 1976 along with five other Orcas to be put in captivity. Because of public protest T-14 and his mother were released. His mother later died so now he travel alone. I was lucky to see T-14 and he is still spotted around Vancouver from time to time.
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