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Every purchase of an Orca Pickleball product helps fund oceanic conservation. $1 of every transaction goes towards adopting a whale and supporting Oceanic Society's global ocean conservation programs.
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Current Whale Adoptions
Below, you'll find more information about the current adopted whale statuses and recent observations.
Cash
HW-MN0501906, known as Cash, is a humpback whale that has been spotted three times in northern California. Cash is identifiable by the rake marks on its flukes, which are scars from an attempted predation, likely by a killer whale. Killer whales are one of the humpback whales’ only predators, typically attacking young calves and sometimes leaving lifelong evidence in the form of rake marks. Cash was first photographed by us in August 2019 on a whale watching trip near the Farallon Islands, and has also been seen twice in Monterey Bay.
Lily
SAYU-1.004, known as Lily, is a humpback whale with beautiful white flukes that has been seen twice at the Farallon Islands off of San Francisco, CA. Humpbacks are known for being the most “acrobatic” whales, and during an Oceanic Society whale watching trip in May 2019 we saw Lily doing some spectacular breaching right near the Farallon Islands. Lily has also been seen twice near Banderas Bay, Mexico, which is where it was first spotted in 2012.
Picasso
Picasso (CRC-16043) is a well-known whale along the California coast. A piece is missing from the tip of one of Picasso’s flukes (or lobes), making him/her easy to identify. Picasso was first photographed in October 2014 by whale watchers in Monterey Bay, CA, and has since been identified nine more times, as far north as the Farallon Islands, where we spotted it feeding in August 2016, and as far south as Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where it travels to reproduce in the winter months.
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