October 27 Cetaceanlab reports:

Our plan was to return home last Saturday which would have been the last chance for us to beach our boat on a high tide. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate and we were held “hostage” in Hartley Bay over the weekend. On Monday morning, October 24, Marven Robinson offered us a ride home in the Gitga'at crew boat. There was still a storm warning in effect but we tried anyways. On our way south through Wright Sound the wind suddenly picked up from the southeast and we found ourselves bouncing around in 5feet waves. Just as we decided to turn back to Hartley Bay, Marven's nephew Richard who came along for the boat ride, spotted a male Orca. We stopped and while the waves grew bigger we were able to see at least 4 Orcas foraging in the entrance to MacKay Reach. It was very difficult to make out their fins in the pounding waves and it was an even bigger task to get an ID picture. At one point a female and her calf came close to the boat and we got a picture of the female. Then it was time for us to leave the whales as the wind picked up more and more. Back in Hartley Bay we took a close look at the one picture we got and it turned out to be a good ID shot of A52. Her two nicks were easy to make out and so we know that we had at least part of the A4s that day. A13 was most likely the male that we spotted first.