by Whale Watching Naturalist | Jun 4, 2012 | orca whale watching by seattle
Salmon Bank was the place to be today. We headed south out of Friday Harbor, prepared for rain but pleasantly surprised that it stopped just as we left our boat slip. Along our way we stopped to view a large group of harbor seals hauled out. A few gave us a...
by Whale Watching Naturalist | May 20, 2012 | orca whale watching by seattle
Harbor seals were taking advantage of the low tide today and were seen hauled out at a number of locations in the San Juan Islands. We counted 97 Harbor Seals at just one haul-out site along the west side of Waldron Island! One mile northwest of Patos Island...
by Whale Watching Naturalist | May 18, 2012 | orca whale watching by seattle
Motoring out of the harbor a large, male California Sea Lion was conveniently hauled out on the channel buoy providing a great photo opportunity. We then traveled north through the San Juan Channel where we found our first harbor seals of the day on the rocky shores...
by Whale Watching Naturalist | May 17, 2012 | orca whale watching by seattle
Today we followed a similar route to yesterday’s trip. We headed north out of the San Juan Channel, past the west side of Waldron and out to Patos Island. About a half mile west of Patos we saw around 20 to 30 Harbor Porpoises milling in the rip tides. This appeared...
by Whale Watching Naturalist | May 11, 2012 | orca whale watching by seattle
Today was amazing! Before the boat even left the slip, we saw a curious little harbor seal poke his head out of the water to check us out. Then, we actually left Friday Harbor and headed north towards Spieden Island where we saw mouflon sheep at the southern point....
