A complete surprise while on our way into Vancouver via Prince of Whales Butchart Gardens, Adventure crossing combo (not designed to be a whale watching tour) ; Jpod was fishing near the north arm of the Fraser River around 7:30pm. Here, J27 and younger sibling J39 are showing communication and/or foraging behavior; tail slaps, pec slaps, even a breach!. You can see that Mako J39 copies what his big brother Blackberry J27 is doing and that they are a team!. It’s a heart warming observation to see the two together in this way. I was thinking about them all night! A side note; I observed and documented (images and video) animals spread far far apart, partaking in similar behavior. The animals were mainly solo, and far off into the distance, there were no boats around them. I am assuming the animals were participating in foraging behavior of some kind or some kind of long distance communication?.
You can see the blog post of the entire journey at Prince of Whales Blog
Some notes on these two co/ the Center for Whale Research;
J27 • Male • Born 1991
Mother is J11 (deceased), siblings are J25 (deceased), J31 & J39.
J39 • Male • Born 2003
Mother is J11 (deceased), siblings are J25 (deceased), J27 & J31.
On the way home, there were a ton of kiteboarders out taking advantage of the high winds… Some rode along side, and played and jumped in our vessel wake. Reminds me of orcas 
