May 27, 2017 evening sail – Johnny Depp’s broken compass steered his pirate ship and every day that is the tool we use to decide North South East or West. With all my experience of winds and tides and Babs experience of which way individual whales are likely to choose there is still a throw of the dice to plot a course that will meet whales. T77A lallygagged perhaps waiting for the T101s (who gave him a days headstart North). Unusual for a solitary male Orca to dawdle. We similarly dilly dallied seeing new things in our favorite places and went the extra mile to meet him. A solitary orca who was clearly King of a vast ocean.
Harbor Seals swimming alongside Flattop Island
Harbor seals hauled out on Flattop Island
Pigeon Guillemot with fish
Layers of Flattop Island
Pair of Bald Eagles
Sailing in New Channel
Cliffside Flowers
Cliffside Flowers
Cormorant Rookery at Kellett Bluff
Cormorants and cliffside flowers
Cormorant Rookery, Henry Island
Unusually glassy seas at Kellett Bluff
Sailing with friends
T77A heading north in Haro Strait on the Canadian side of the border
T77A, born 1996
T77A made the day by showing up for the birthday girl on board
Sunset over Canada
Orange skies after the sun went down
Birthday celebration