Fast sail on the flood up President’s Channel with T124C, a solitary male orca. We left him at Pt Doughty to catch a beam reach fast sail to Skipjack Island. Lots of bald eagles and seal pups calling from this emerald paradise in a turquoise sea. Beating into wind, pointing high, to pass White Rock and take a moments respite in the lee of Flattop Island. Dramatic skies shaped in our wake as we cut through the islands to head home.
Family sails
Transient orca, T124C
Transient orca, T124C
Bare Island
Sailing to Skipjack Island
Harbor seals hauled out with their pups beside a black oyster catcher on Skipjack Island (National Wildlife Refuge)
Black oyster catcher coming in for a landing
Pigeon Guillemots on Flattop Island
Pigeon Guillemots
Flattop Island National Wildlife Refuge
Flattop Island National Wildlife Refuge
Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle taking flight
Bald eagle soaring
Bald eagle soaring
Flattop Island National Wildlife Refuge
Harbor Seal with pup Flattop Island National Wildlife Refuge
Harbor Seals Flattop Island National Wildlife Refuge
Skies over the San Juan Islands
Coon Island
Sailing passed Yellow Islandatching