Calm before the Storm

This photo of transient killer whale T101B (Lagoon) lifting his head above the water in a moment of calm with his brother T101A surfacing in the background, was taken shortly before the family began hunting sea lions along the coastline off northeastern Vancouver Island. The T101 family, a well known marine mammal eating killer whale family consists of T101 and her two sons, having lost the third son, T102 just a couple of weeks before this encounter took place in the fall of 2020.