I don't know, as I kinda live in a cave.
Orcas are seen locally to me, in the Puget Sound, like really locally, I believe. I've worked at Lime Kiln State park, once, and saw whales in the distance. They have a whale-a-phone/ hydrophone, radio-broadcast on the island to be able to listen to, IIRC. The hydrophone is run by a volunteer woman, IIRC.
Overall, Orcas Are discussed, and salmon is discussed normally. A field trip for the preschoolers, on up in age, is to go see spawning/ dying salmon locally.
You can see the salmon at the fish-ladder
http://outdoor-society.com/the-best-salmon-watching-in-olympia-washington/ coming up out of the sound at Capitol Lake (artificial reservoir/ reflection pool for the Capitol Building), downtown Olympia, where the fish are trying go up the Deschutes River, past the defunct Olympia Brewery, on up toward the Deschutes glacier on Mount Rainier.
The Nisqually Glacier comes down to the Nisqually Delta (across the county from me, about 15 miles, maybe less) and the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
My next door neighbor is a US Fish and Wildlife salmon restoration biologist. My neighbor 3 doors down is a fisheries biologist for WA state.
One neighbor closer, husband or husband and wife are avid divers.
Friend of mine is a native guy who commercially fishes on tribal waters on the Olympic Peninsula, out Neah Bay-way (very NW tip of the Olympia Peninsula). Dives for Geoduck (gooey-duck), expensive seafood!
Shellfish farms rent tidal lands from landowners for farmed-oysters locally, and recently, they have started growing via 'mussel-rafts' that float, rather than oysters and geoducks on the tidal area floor.
