Orcas

Can we recognize the ocean and orcas on Earth Day for a minute? — They are emblematic of all intelligent free-spirited living creatures in an ocean world: orcas. And they are disappearing. North Pacific orca populations seem to be recovering, growing to more than 300 currently. There are more than 700 Alaska residents, but there are only 73 southern resident orcas left. The reason…

Beautiful now :) Orcas are the most widely ranging mammal on the planet, traveling 100+ miles most days. They’re known for their clicking & whistling sonar communication, for their complex social bonds, for lifting their entire bodies out of the water (I see you Shamu!), and for being the apex predator of the ocean-blue. The great white shark is sexy, no doubt, but the orca is the quiet queen of the deep below.

Today marked an extraordinary experience as I embarked on a journey to Miami, beginning with a 5 am flight and fueled by a quick coffee stop. Eager to attend a press conference on the fate of Tokitae, a captive whale whose story has captured the hearts of many, I couldn’t…

In the soft gray of an ocean dawn sharks underwater sense electricity and fear the beginning of wisdom Faraway whales sing epics of the places and the times of their lives across the oceans while onshore green life pushes through dark earth as life make its way upward Above in…

October 2020| Utopia Science Fiction Magazine — Some believe the orcas’ ancestors were slender-legged land mammals who dove into water when threatened and one day a few of them decided, hey, it’s not so bad down here, there’s food and nobody’s trying to eat us. Maybe it’s that easy, to find a new home, a new way…

THE LIFE SLANT *Another dead wolf, J50, of the Salish Sea, the third one in 2018. The Pacific Northwest’s picturesque sea is being lambasted by a man-made accelerated climate crisis, hideous poisons and the man-driven Sixth Mass Extinction, which has shifted into overdrive. The Salish Sea is a global hotspot…

Meet KK (the Orca), Wiggles (the Jellyfish) and Nemo (the Clownfish) as they learn about “CLAMM”.

I’ve been playing an awful lot with Orca Whirlpools of late, trying to perfect a non-custodial system wherein people can ‘set and forget’ their preferences and have my Whirlie Wonka program close unprofitable positions and open new ones that are within the range of profitability. They are not just ‘in…

Alaskan stories — 1 — When my wife Ellen and I lived and worked in Nome, Alaska, we often met for lunch at The Glue Pot, a local diner. It was a sort of community meeting place for non-natives and indigenous people alike. During one luncheon, a middle-aged native man approached our table with some…