Listening to whales
Southern resident orca whales frolic in 2008 near the light house at Lime Kiln Point State Park. The one breaching is Canuck L-7, in the foreground is Faith L-57. Neither is still living. (Photo by Jeanne Hyde)
Hyde works at The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. She documents all she can about what goes on with the whales for the Adopt an Orca Program at the museum.
She listens to whales both at the Lime Kiln Point listening station and online from listening stations around the world.
While Hyde says she’ll never be able to speak or translate orca language, she insists the whales do have language. And the countless hours she’s spent listening to their calls has brought her much closer to them.
