Orca Whales Sighted!
A close-up of K20, Spock.
K20, Spock, with her youngster, K38, Comet.
A bald eagle gives us the eagle eye on Guemes Island.
Harbor seals doing what seals do best......sleep. Ahh, what a life!Naturalist Bart Rulon reports that the Island Explorer 3 is on-scene with K-Pod Orca Whales. Stay tuned for updates on today's tour. We ended up cruising all the way up to Canada today in order to find whales. It was well worth it because we were able to watch K20, Spock, and her calf, Comet, K38, north of East Point. It was very unusual to only see two resident orcas swimming by themselves, with no other family members nearby. Spock and Comet surfaced many times side by side, and during one occasion they changed direction as if they were chasing fish or sharing a catch. By the time we left the two they looked to be headed toward the Frasier River for some feeding. We also had some other great wildlife sightings today of harbor porpoises in Rosario Strait, hundreds of harbor seals hauled out on the north end of Matia Island, and bald eagles on Guemes Island, and Orcas Island. Other widlife spotted today included pigeon guillemots, rhinoceros auklets, common murres, glaucous-winged gulls, and pelagic cormorants. Naturalist Bart Rulon
posted by Island Adventures Whale Report @ 3:41 PM
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