Whale Watching Report

Our first wildlife sighting on today's trip was at Colville Island where we spotted a couple of harbor seals hauled out on the rocks. We had to travel all the way to Canada in order to find orcas today, but it was well worth it. We found L-pod orcas just south of Victoria traveling eastward. The first group we visited with included L92, Crewser, L72, Racer, L105, Fluke, and L90, Bellena. Fluke did a spyhop, and then Crewser turned over on his back and did several upside-down tail slaps. Next they slowed down and L26, Baba swam over to join them. Next we cruised over to watch L41, Mega swim over with a female. Mega did three amazing cartwheels in a row as the orcas started to spread out! We saw a few breaches off in the distance and then we spent time with one more group before we departed. We spotted a harbor porpoise swim right past the orcas. It just so happened that this last group had the new L-pod calf, L115, in it. The new calf was swimming with the orca presumed to be the mom, L47, Marina. L83, Moonlight, L110, Midnight, and L91, Muncher were also in this tightly packed subpod. Our passengers got several great looks at the new calf before we headed back to the dock. It was another fantastic day on the water. Naturalist Bart Rulon.