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12 Oct

T123’s and New Calf T123D Plus Others

A New Calf Today was an awesome fall day with the J's, K's, L's, Humpback, T49A's and T123's and new calf T123D T123's and a new calf T123D. Also viewed were [...]

30 Sep

T49A’s Killing and Milling and Mugging

T49A's Killing and Milling and Mugging today. Both tours today viewing a pod of Bigg's Killer Whales. We saw a couple seal kills take place. My lead pic is of [...]

30 Sep

Biggs T65A’s Hunting Seals

Biggs T65A's hunting seals were our focus. I actually thought I may be canceling the tour due to heavy seas. San Juan Channel was pretty rough early on. It was blowing [...]

22 Sep

T137A’s Hunting Breaching and Playing

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 [...]

21 Sep

K Pod and L Pod whales and other Wildlife

Southern Resident Killer Whales held our attention today. Seeing K Pod and L Pod Whales among other Wildlife. We saw a number of animals including Harbor Seals, Stellar Sea Lions, Bald [...]

19 Sep

J’s, K’s, L’s, Humpback, T49A’s

J's, K's, L's, Humpback, T49A's. Both tours were pretty cool and both went long which is a good thing. There was just too much to see and not enough time. [...]

19 Sep

J’s, K’s, L’s plus Heather and Raptor Humpbacks

J's, K's, L's plus Heather and Raptor Humpbacks. We started out the day with advance notice we would be able to see a pair of Humpback Whales known as Heather [...]

17 Sep

K’s and L’s and Lost Biggs

K's and L's and a Lost Biggs Pod. We started out looking for a pod of Biggs Killer Whales that were spotted near the north end of San Juan Channel. [...]

16 Sep

J’s K’s L’s & NOAA-Sea World Partnership

Today we started out with seeing a Red-Necked Phalarope. He/she is a tiny little bird that does a spinning motion to create a whirlpool. He then steps out of that [...]

13 Sep

J-Pod, Tufted Puffin, Stellar’s

We saw many whales today. J-Pod, Tufted Puffin, Stellar's and it started off with seeing Harbor Seals. The J Pod whales were widespread in Rosario Strait. Some of who we saw were [...]

12 Sep

T99B and Others

We saw T99B and Others today. I thought we were headed for J Pod and some L's up at Point Roberts. They were headed SW towards East Point. However, they [...]

11 Sep

T38’s, T60’s, T41’s, T109A’s

We really made a long haul today to see T38's, T60's, T41's, T109A's and others. My guests and I went west past Victoria and on to Race Rocks. The first we [...]

10 Sep

J Pod, Some L’s and other wildlife

J Pod, Some L's and other wildlife. Wow, what a day. I woke up at 0600, opened my iPhone app to listen to the hydrophone on the west side of [...]

09 Sep

WDFW Protecting Our Whales

T90's, T87, WDFW Protecting Our Whales. Today I had to make an early morning run at 0645 to Sidney to pick up some parts. On the way back I had [...]

08 Sep

J Pod at Salmon Bank

J Pod at Salmon Bank Breaching. Today we saw some Harbor Seals and Stellar Sea Lions. Bald Eagles and A Great Blue Heron too, on the way to see J [...]

07 Sep

Biggs T18s and J Pod

An exciting day in the Salish Sea with the Biggs T18s and J Pod Killer Whales. We saw the Biggs pod first for a bit then we headed north to [...]

04 Sep

L’s, J’s, 37A’s, 36B

Many whales today including L's, J's, 37A's, 36B. We saw J50 Scarlet from a distance. She is not doing very well healthwise. L41 Mega the oldest male in all three [...]

03 Sep

J36 Alki Breaches For Us

When we started the tour we saw Harbor Seals, Bald Eagle, and Stellar Sea Lions. A couple of the sea lions were playing around, is it still called Horse Play [...]

01 Sep

T37A’s T36B’s and Others

On our first tour, we started out seeing Harbor Seals and Bald Eagles. We then met up with the T37A's T36B's and others. They had apparently killed a seal along [...]

31 Aug

Biggs Pods T37A’s-T36B-T99’s-T36A’s

What a beautiful day. The water was a bit choppy but we had blue sky. No more forest fire smoke which was nice. Lots of whales today. We had Biggs Pods T37A's-T36B-T99's-T36A's [...]

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