Lotsa Lotsa Whales

Lotsa Lotsa Whales

We were fortunate to have Lotsa Lotsa Whales in all directions todayThere were too many to see.
Our tour started off leaving the harbor and within a few minutes we were with the T49A pod of Biggs Killer Whales. T49A1 is the big male, he is 19 years old but he still obeys mama.

Still Have Pregnant Seals

I took our tour down island and we saw Harbor Seals. I had mentioned being at the tail end of pupping season, but there are a couple seals in this pic that look very pregnant. Then we saw a Bald Eagle before moving on to the Stellar Sea Lions. This big boy in the pics looks pretty relaxed.

Unidentified Humpback and Tufted Puffins

Then we went south into the Strait of Juan de Fuca to meet up with a Humpback Whale. From there we moved east and viewed several Tufted Puffin competing with seagulls, Rhinoceros Auklets, among others to get their share of bait fish from the bait balls they were diving on. One pic shows what a bait ball is all about…CHAOS.

18 More Orca

After our fill of seeing these beautiful birds I took us up into Rosario Strait to meet up with multiple pods traveling together. There were 99’s, 37’s, 36’s, 34’s, and more. After recognizing the dorsal fin of T99B, I recalled a tour last summer. We went exploring in the straits for orca when everyone else was watching humpbacks and we actually found the T99’s and I did not know who they were. I took a pic of the back of my camera display of T99B and Sarah from Maya’s clued me in to who we were viewing.

And More Whales

It was such a beautiful day with the whales. There were even more we were not able to see. There were T101;s and 109’s out west and the remainder of J-pod coming down from the Strait of Georgia. There were about a dozen Humpback Whales up in Georgia, and about 40 out west in Juan de Fuca.

On the way back to the harbor we learned that the T49A’s had flipped and were right at the harbor and even ducked into the harbor as we were headed for the dock. What a day with Lotsa Lotsa Whales.