Whale Watching Report

What a day! It started out with some harbor porpoise in Rosario Strait. We made out way through the inner islands and found a turkey vulture soaring over Blakely Island. We found some harbor seals swimming around throughout the islands. We made our way toward Canada. We made our way all the way to Active Pass where we met up with some orcas! The first whales we saw were Alexis, Ocean Sun, Mega, Matia, Calypso and L113. Cappuccino, Raggedy, Opus, Sonata, Spirit, Skana and Oynx were also in the area. It was amazing seeing all those dorsal fins up at one time. They were going crazy with tail lobs all over the place! There were a couple of breaches and a spyhop! We also saw them playing in the bull kelp. Active Pass is a very narrow channel where the whales headed through, behind us a BC ferry started coming through the pass and met up with another ferry and there were whales traveling through as well! It was quite the congested area for a few minutes there! We got some fantastic looks at the whales before we had to head home. We had quite the run back into the harbor, but what a day for it! We saw some harbor seals hauled out on Black Rock, near Waldron Island. Sunshine, whales, blue skies and calm waters, we couldn't have asked for a better day!

Spyhop!