Well, orca are my favourite to interact with in the wild. Even if it is a 530am call to my room on the ship from a co-worker in the bridge to say he has contact with a huge pod of Type B orca. Up I get, dressed, grabbed my camera and binoculars and BOOM, a perfect way to start your first day of expeditions on the Antarctic Peninsula.
As the pod decided to turn and interact with our ship we noticed that there was indeed some young, young calves next to a few females. It wasn't until I sorted through about 500 photos, which I took from that morning that I realized that there was a few wee babies in the pod. The one pictured below looks to be maybe a year old, if that and it was amazing to watch how close it sticks to its mother through the entire encounter.
Fingers crossed we get to encounter more of these animals in the following months, as I only have another 3 months of exploring this continent and all the species there that call it home
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