![]() ![]() So Suzanne and I tied up with relief and walked up the dock toward the hotel and into the life of a whale. All we had was an open twenty-foot boat with an outboard motor and a leaky canvas top, and there had been forty-five minutes of splash and spray even before we got to the customs dock, crossing from our island home in Canada. The boat ride from the customs dock had taken about half an hour in lumpy water with a cold wind. ![]() The marina at the Rosario Resort and Spa on Orcas Island, about a hundred air miles north of Seattle, was mostly quiet, except for a few uneasy sailboats with masts and lines clattering like empty flagpoles. It was the off-season in the islands along the border between the United States and Canada on the west coast of North America, in one of the few places where the border doesn’t go in a straight line. It was a clean but restless day, with hard light on the water and an edge in the north wind, the kind of day in which the sky doesn’t tell you much except not to settle in. The Lost Whale celebrates the life of a smart, friendly, determined, transcendent being from the sea who appeared among us like a promise out of the blue: that the greatest secrets in life are still to be discovered. Nothing went as planned, and the ensuing events caught everyone by surprise and challenged the very nature of that special and mysterious bond we humans call friendship. The First Nations' members brought out their canoes. But does friendship work between species? People who loved Luna couldn't agree on how to help him. Undaunted, Luna refused to give up his search for connection and people went out to meet him, like smugglers carrying friendship through the dark. Policemen arrested people for rubbing Luna's nose. ![]() People fell in love with him, but the government decided that being friendly with Luna was bad for him, and tried to keep him away from humans. When someone whistled at him, he squeaked and whistled back. He begged for attention at boats and docks. Like humans, orcas are highly social and depend on their families, but Luna found himself desperately alone. One summer in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a young killer whale called Luna got separated from his pod. The heartbreaking and true story of a lonely orca named Luna who befriended humans in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm. ![]()
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