A trio of unexpected guests are visiting the waters of Puget Sound this week.
The visitors are a small pod of “mystery whales,” three orcas that were first glimpsed in Vancouver Harbour to start the week and have more recently been sighted further south near Seattle and Olympia.
The tag was given to the three marine mammals by the Orca Behavior Institute of Friday Harbor, which says the whales are likely transients that have filed in from the waters of the Pacific Ocean near Alaska.
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The whale tracking research group, Bay Cetology, which is based on the small island of Alert Bay in British Columbia, says the mystery guests have only been documented on one previous occasion – when they were spotted near Anchorage about a year ago…