Dall's Porpoise
2003-07-08 17:57:42.256046+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
It's the Loch Ness Monster
! Well, actually, just a Dall's Porpoise
in Haro Strait
off of Lime Kiln State Park
on San Juan Island
, cropped from this image. It's a shame (and a tribute to the scenery) that this is the best image I got from that visit, as there were quite a few instances of many porpoises surfacing together, and there was one particularly brazen red fox that walked down the trail looking askance at the humans; given that I've never seen one of those in daylight in the wild before there's obviously been some "feeding of the cute little doggy" going on.
Oh, and you can tell it's a Dall's Porpoise
by that bend in the back, which sometimes looks like a second fin.