The whale-watching company Prince of Whales was conducting a tour of the area off Telegraph Cove on the north coast of the Island when captain Scott Turton noticed a primarily white orca calf.
Remembering another white orca spotted several times in California — even as far south as Tijuana, Mexico — Turton reached out to a researcher with the California Killer Whale Project, Alisa Shulman-Janiger. “At one point the two California whales branched off on their own and found themselves in very shallow water in Beaver Cove…but by 5 p.m. they had left the cove and were seen by Scott and the Prince of Whales boat heading west, just the two of them, out of the area,” said the Pacific Whale Watching Association in a statement.
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