Today we had a couple of choices but they meant some travel time. We could head out west of Victoria to see some Transients headed away from us. Or we could head north and see a couple Humpback Whales or we could head east. I chose to go east then south inside Whidbey Island to see the T137A’s Hunting Breaching and Playing.
With the anticipation of small craft advisory winds out west and south, we went east and then south on the inside of Whidbey Island. It was absolutely the right choice despite some rough water crossing Rosario on the way home.
I had heard on the radio T49A’s but when I got home on the computer to edit my pics I saw we were actually with the T137A’s.
Three seal kills took place, though in the pics there are only two hints to this. In one you can see the seal launching itself away from the whales and in another you can see some red just below the surface in the mouth of one of the whales, it is faint so you have to be looking.
On our trip down we also saw a Stellar Sea Lion on a buoy and a Minke Whale just before Deception Pass on Lawson Reef.
Other than the rough crossing back to the San Juans it was a pretty spectacular tour watching the T137A’s hunting, breaching and playing around.
