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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
Orcas are beautiful. We have lots of them out here in the Pac NW, and if anything they're too friendly with the boats of tourists...they are curious about the boats, sometimes get too close and get hurt by the propellers.
They are huge, wild animals and do not belong in large swimming pools.
And it's true that Orcas are not whales. They're actually the largest members of the dolphin family.
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Yeah, I kind of stopped doing some coastal kayaking because I didn't want to get capsized by one. I'll go on Monterey Bay where the sea otters may get frisky, but I realized I was tempting fate ala a Darwin Award doing it alon ghte WA/CA/AK coasts.
But seeing one breach or a pod of them is beautiful when I'm safely on the deck of a ferry.