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Orca sketch

Just watched “The Lighthouse of the Orcas” and thought about your Olympic Peninsula adventures.   An event I fervently wished I’d seen with my own eyes.   If I’d only had a drone then.   So told totally from my imagination: The scene:   The two of you in a raft, (or a kayak, or some other very small water craft,) paddling from the shores of a ginormous body of water, saltwater, when a pod of Orcas stop by for a visit. Here’s the part I really, really wanted a close-up visual:   Michael paddling toward them.   Jacky paddling away.  Classic keystone. Hey Jack, I judged, (sorry) and thought you totally wimped out.   Michael, being Michael, likely slanted my view. Until tonight I thought Orcas were of similar size to a porpoise, (a porpoise being bigger than I want to swim next to…) but I learned I was wrong.   And that Orcas are HUGE and powerful in the abstract.   Right where I plan on keeping them. I’d have ...