This week has been beyond stellar in the Salish Sea for whale watching. The residents are all finally back, baleen whales are having a field day in our productive waters, and seals and porpoises are abound! Today was no exception for our streak of amazing encounters....
The residents are back in full storm! Today we took our sunset tour down through Cattle Pass to the south end of San Juan Island to follow up on a report of members of J pod traveling along the west side of the island. We weren’t even at South Beach before we spotted...
Today the M/V Kestrel spent some quality time with some of my very favorite whales. We found the black-and-whites on the west side of San Juan Island near Eagle Point and False Bay. Here in the Salish Sea we have two ecotypes of killer whales that are genetically and...
Guests boarded the Kestrel in hopes of finding Killer Whales and positive reports gave us just enough excitement to boat over to Iceberg Point. We travelled at 35knots as we moved towards the whales, taking a quick pit stop to check out harbor seals. Once arriving on...
We are getting spoiled with all of these orcas around San Juan Island! On the warmest day of the year so far and under some of the best sunshine we’ve had in a while, we were definitely ready for another foray into the waters of the Salish Sea. Leaving the dock we had...
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