Minke Whale & T37A’s Orca Pod
Our efforts today brought us Minke Whale & T37A’s Orca Pod in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. We had started our search heading south and found a couple of...
Our efforts today brought us Minke Whale & T37A’s Orca Pod in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. We had started our search heading south and found a couple of...
The T65B Bigg’s Orca Pod showed up nicely for us to spend time with today. We had made our way to the border to be ready for one pod...
Our morning tour we saw lots of marine life but a minke whale was elusive to us as it was lost in a fog bank. The afternoon tour was...
A Birding Tour watching Orca. We started out of the harbor and since the Orca were very close by we stopped by to view the T37A’s for a bit...
Today we set out to view a Humpback Whale known as Zillion. We were able to spend a little time with him before he crossed over into Canada. Then as...
Today we struggled with the USA and Canada border closure once again. We were able to view the T65B’s and T49A’s on our side of the border but as soon...
We had several pods of Bigg’s Orcas visit us today. Viewing the T137’s, T46’s and for a bit, the T65B’s who dropped down from Canada long enough to get a...
Another day with Tufted Puffins, Minke Whales, and Bait Balls while the Orcas are on the Canadian side of the border. The water was calm and the Tufted Puffins and...
What a beautiful day we had on the water here in the San Juan Islands. We saw Tufted Puffins, Steller Sea Lions, Brown Pelican, Rhinoceros Auklet, and the Bigg’s T18’s....
A challenging day to see Orca today. I left the dock to start searching for the T60’s that were seen off Lime Kiln State Park but they continued Southwest away...
After a couple of days of not being able to view whales because they were on the Canadian side of the border, it was very nice to have a pod...
What a day, we had two pods pointed to the USA side of the border and both pods changed their minds and headed back deeper into Canadian waters. This border...
Wow-what a day with Tufted Puffins and Orca Pod playing in strong rip tides. The rips were spinning my boat around as we viewed them playing. My first tour was...
The Humpbacks in Georgia Strait were the draw for us today. The weather down in Juan de Fuca was 4′ and 5′ seas so I opted to go north. We...
I had a maintenance day today, followed by an afternoon with Birding Tour Success for my guests. We saw many Tufted Puffin, I had my eye out for the rare...
We saw the Bigg’s T65A’s T137s and T18s today. I started off with viewing the T65A’s and T137’s. They were bucking a pretty strong flood tide and not making much...
Three of the four pods we viewed yesterday were located but they were all on the Canadian side of the border. We saw lots of marine life though and hope...
Had to run, will finish text part of this post later, but wanted to get tour pics emailed out with this link. “The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds...
Sneaky T’s Elude discovery on us today. We heard a second-hand report of Orca in San Juan channel before we left the dock. We had about ten boats looking for...
Spotting a dorsal fin in the Fog. Today was one of those days when we did not have any early reports of sightings. That means we all leave the docks...
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