Baby orca 'not ready' to leave remote B.C. lagoon despite 'perfect unison' to herd with oikomi pipes

About 10 boats herded the young whale towards the exit of the lagoon at high tide, but the two-year-old whale refused to swim over the sand bar where its mother died last weekend to the open ocean.

Baby orca 'not ready' to leave remote B.C. lagoon despite 'perfect unison' to herd with oikomi pipes
a canoe full of people paddle near an orca whale

About 10 boats herded the young whale towards the exit of the lagoon at high tide, but the two-year-old whale refused to swim over the sand bar where its mother died last weekend to the open ocean.