09/15/17 β M/V Sea Lion β 11 AM Charter After picking up our charter guests from Rosario Resort on Orcas Island, M/V Sea Lion headed south back down San Juan Channel towards the confluence of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Haro Strait. Within minutes, a harbor...
The M/V Sea Lion departed Friday Harbor yesterday at noon with a boat load of guests and a boat load of whale reports! We headed in the direction of the L-4s and company, traveling south of Orcas Island. Reaching the west-bound orcas rather quickly, we discovered a...
[Naturalist Erick D., M/V Kestrel, 9/5/17, 2:00PM] For our second trip on Tuesday we went on a little search aboard the M/V Kestrel. The cool smokey fog still was hanging around. Captain Mike and I journeyed south towards Cattle Pass. We made a stop at one of...
[Naturalist Erick D., M/V Kestrel, 9/5/17, 10:00AM] On Tuesday, the weather continued to be an eerie in between of summer and fall weather. The nearby wildfires in Washington and Oregon caused a layer of warm smoke to hang in the air above the Salish Sea and...
[Naturalist Erick D., M/V Kestrel, 9/2/17, 1:30PM] For our afternoon trip on Saturday we took a little bit of a different route on the M/V Kestrel than we did in the morning. We started out by going south again to view one of my favorite animals and yours β the...
[Naturalist Erick D., M/V Kestrel, 9/2/17, 9:30AM] On Saturday, Captain Gabe and I took an early morning crowd on another fun trip over the water. We left Friday Harbor and went south in between San Juan Island and Lopez Island. Our first stop was at one of my...
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