Alexandra decided to move to Canada to live by the Pacific Ocean, in search of the family of the orcas she had studied in Los Angeles.

I had now spent several years learning the dialect of the two whales in Los Angeles, and so I wanted to try to find their family, the whales that used the same sounds.

So I contacted a remarkable researcher in the government of Canada.

His name was Dr. Michael Big, and he was very generous.

He sent me pictures of her family, and he said, go to Alert Bay, which is on the coast of British Columbia, in August, and you'll find them.

And so with these instructions, I put an inflatable boat in the back of my little pickup truck, and With a friend, we drove from Los Angeles, crossed the border into Canada and up to this remote fishing village called Alert Bay on the north end of Vancouver Island and pumped up the boat.

And we actually found the whales on the first night.

Additionally, efforts to protect the farm salmon soon started to impact local wildlife, including Alexandra's whales.