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An Orcas Sighting Off of Galveston Provides a Whale of a Good Time

April 6, 2021 | By Pam LeBlanc

On the morning of March 17, Capt. Sam Hardeman saw something he never expected to see in the Gulf of Mexico: a pod of orcas swarming his fishing vessel.

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