BREMERTON (AP) — A visiting pod of transient orcas put on quite a show for people watching the killer whales at Bremerton.
The Kitsap Sun reported hundreds who were alerted by social media watched from shore Thursday as the whales surfaced and spouted.
National Marine Fisheries Service marine mammal biologist Brad Hanson caught up to them in Rich Passage between Bainbridge Island and South Kitsap. He identified them as the T-65A pod of transient orcas.
Transients prey on seals and sea lions and are not related to the resident Puget Sound orcas that eat salmon.
Howard Garrett of the Freeland-based Orca Network says the eight whales were also spotted Friday morning by people aboard the Victoria Clipper near the south end of Whidbey Island.
