How Ken Balcomb got involved in bringing Lolita home.

In early June of 1993, just after I started driving across the US on my way to San Juan Island to rejoin Ken and take part in the ongoing photo-identification research, I noticed a movie marquee that said "Sneak Preview - Free Willy!" I sat in a front row, from which the glorious moving images of Southern Resident orcas filled the screen and took my breath away. These were whales I had encountered numerous times ten years previously when I assisted the research. I was deeply touched to see them magnified even larger than real life.