article_snippet: us've always lived in London, but Valentina has a keen interest in the animal world and longed to know more about the mysterious orca whale.
article_snippet: us decided us would see these magnificent creatures in these magnificent creatures natural habitat.
article_snippet: The animal kingdom was around us at all times: sea lions, humpback whales, bald eagles, jellyfish, dolphins, porpoises.
article_snippet: The animal kingdom was around us at all times: sea lions, humpback whales, bald eagles, jellyfish, dolphins, porpoises vessels together as a killer whale approaches in the Johnstone Strait .
article_snippet: In the morning the whales would gun down the Johnstone Strait as if the whales were on the school run, then at dusk the whales would drift back slowly, as if the whales were heading home at the end of a busy day.
article_snippet: us soon learned something of the whales habits.
article_snippet: Julietta had a microphone that goes underwater and when the whales were close us could listen to the whales communicating with each other as any family would do.
article_snippet: It was a deeply emotional experience to hear the whales conversing, especially knowing the terrible isolation the whales experience in confinement and captivity.
article_snippet: us became calm and relaxed among the whales, waiting for the whales to reappear, then easing back in us kayaks to take photographs.