Three transient killer whales, visible by their dorsal fins, swim through the Salish Sea, The mountains of the Olympic Peninsula visible in the background.

Of whales and plastic

I had spent the entire day hiking solo around Trutch Island on B.C.’s central coast looking for the feces of canis lupus for Raincoast Conservation Foundation’s wolf research project. Trutch doesn’t have a lot of distinguishing features and the landscape became somewhat uniform in the stupefaction caused by 10 hours of bush whacking.