Whale Watching Report

We had to venture all the way up to Canada in order to find orcas today. We started out by cruising through the inner San Juan Islands. After we crossed the border we found L-pod orcas swimming very close to the western shoreline of North Pender island. They were swimming very close together and going up and down in a resting pattern. This made for some great photography of groups of orcas surfacing together with the rocky shoreline in the background. Today we saw L12, Alexis, L41, Mega, L77, Matia, L94, Calypso, L25, Ocean Sun, L85, Mystery, L22, Spirit, L79, Skana, and L89, Solstice. These nine whales were moving at a very consistent rate making parallel viewing easy. After leaving the orca scene we stopped at Flattop Island to look at some seals hauled out on the rocks there. Soon after we spotted the seals we also spotted an immature bald eagle on the rocks above them. The eagle took flight and landed in a tree that had a raven in it. We noticed the raven seemed to be eating on something deep in the tree and the bald eagle was attempting to get a chance at the food. The Raven seemed to be protected by the thickness of the tree. After a bit a wildlife drama the bald eagle eventually gave up and flew off to another tree. You never know what is going to happen out here. Every trip is so different. Naturalist Bart Rulon