ORCAS: Back in Puget Sound today

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8:33 AM: Thanks to Kersti Muul for the first tip – orcas are back in central Puget Sound today! As Orca Network commenters also are chronicling, they were seen by ferry riders – including state ferries and the Vashon Water Taxi – headed for Rich Passage, the waterway to and from Bremerton – but they could just as easily head back this way, so we’re publishing this heads-up. Let us know if you saw/see them!

1:28 PM: The orcas have spent the past few hours delighting fans in Kitsap waters – here’s a photo gallery on KitsapSun.com.

Kersti Muul April 3, 2017 (10:48 am)

I took this photo at

8:53 AM from Me Kwa Mooks, looking west to the east side of Vashon Island

Large transient bull in the lead of 5-7 orcas heading south at a fast clip between Ferry terminal and channel marker

They had extended down times, and the last I saw them was at 9 passing the Vashon Ferry dock. They were way over on the west side of the channel, too far for ID

8 minutes ago they were spotted at Evergreen park, which is in a channel over by Manette!