I had a six-hour tour today, and we tried to stuff as many species of marine life all around that we could into our tour. It was a very challenging [...]

I started our first tour heading north towards the Southern Resident Killer Whales. Today's tours were with Southern Residents, Transients and More Transients We viewed them for a while then [...]

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 [...]

A Glimpse of the Residents Leaving My first tour was down in the Strait of Juan de Fuca with hopes of seeing J-Pod. I was able to recognize J26 Mike [...]

J-Pod Until this last week, I have been saying the Southern Resident Killer Whales have only been here a total of 7 days for the entire year. Only some of [...]

Biggs Orca in San Juan Channel This morning I was drinking coffee I was reading about a pod of Orca that had just seen in San Juan Channel. For our [...]

J31-Tsuchi and New Calf J Pod arrived this morning and allowed us an opportunity to see J31-Tsuchi and New Calf she brought to us in May. This little one is [...]

7 Hour Photography Tour I had a professional photographer from France onboard today for a 7-hour private charter, and we shot tons of pics throughout the day. Our day started [...]

Orca North of Vancouver and West of Sherringham Our day started out hearing about a single male orca up in Howe Sound north of Vancouver. We also heard of a [...]

T65A2 as a rebel Our morning tour started off heading south and stopping off to see Harbor Seals, Harlequin Duck, and Black Oystercatchers. We also stopped at Whale Rocks and [...]

Viewing Olympic Peninsula Killer Whales was our destination today. The T137s was located down on the Peninsula this morning. We scanned for others on the way down and spent some [...]

Orcas in the Islands We had such a fantastic day yesterday with plenty of Orca and Humpbacks around and beautiful sunny weather. The weather was too good for me, and [...]

Biggs and Humpbacks Our day started with learning there was a single Orca within the islands and nearby. My first tour was a private tour with a family from Philidelphia, [...]

This is Nature, Not a Zoo Today is one of those days when I am very aware that nature is not a zoo or entertainment park with a concrete tub. [...]

Many Orca Today We had three tours today viewing the T46s, T46Bs, and T137s. We started at the bottom of Lopez and ended with them nearing Dungeness Spit on the [...]

Butchart Gardens Back Door Blood Boil I titled this post-Butchart Gardens Seal Cull, which may not make a lot of sense but it is because we were knocking on their [...]

I started out heading south searching for Orca and making a few stops on the way. Our tour ended up viewing north and south. We saw some Harbor Seals with [...]

  This evening we left the harbor and headed for the T65As in Sansum Narrows which is north of Sidney, BC. It is a channel separating Vancouver Island from Salt [...]

T46Bs south of Victoria The USCG was at my vessel for a quick inspection this morning and then I started figuring out where we were going to go for the [...]

Searching for T65As On our first tour, we made our way north searching for orca while on the way to a group of Humpback Whales. San Juan Channel was pretty [...]