• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I used to work in aquaculture and would often work low tides.

    Just so happens the best aquaculture beaches are intertidal shelves. I would often be walking the beach hauling crates of shellfish to a barge that would be perched over 20+ foot deep water.

    During the salmon runs the Orca would come right up to the water’s edge.

    I will never forget seeing the sheen of at least two Orca a few feet away from me pacing the edge. Could just feel them watching me. They stayed away from the motorized pump on the barge but once I’d go out a hundred or so feet to where the diggers left crates I’d sense them in the dark.