I’ve been to La Ventana two years now and expect to make it a yearly event. In the two years I’ve been here I’ve experienced mobula ray migrations, Baird’s beaked whales, pilot, humpback, sperm and even been in the water with blue whales. Sea lions, manta rays, shark and thousands of fish but it is the orca that will keep me coming each year. Last year a pod of six orca stayed in the area for my entire week and each day we were dropped in the water with these apex predators as they passed. Most days they were curious and would stay near our group checking us out as we did them. One pass an orcasw so close I could touch it and I tried but just when it was going to happen the orca would move its tail fin so I couldn’t quite reach. On the next drop in an orca swam in front of me, as a distraction, while the one I had tried to touch swam behind me and gently nudged me with its nostrum (snout) on my fin. If it wasn’t for my insta 360 filming in front and behind me I would never have know I was playing tag with the apex creature in the ocean. My greatest experience with a wild animal. I’ll always come back to La Ventana!