June 23, 2018 – We sailed north with a report of T49A’s, T65A’s and T137’s north of Flattop Island. As we arrived the T49A’s and T65A’s had cleared towards Skipjack and we met the T137’s now traveling south and sailed with them through Spring Pass. Fast travel passed Friday Harbor before hunting at Canoe Island. We continued to check out the forested shoreline of Upright Head before rejoining as the whales circumnavigated Shaw Island. We watched them on another hunt at the entrance to Pole Pass. After taking Pole Pass we left them close to where we started at Jones Island and we continued to Flattop Island. At Flattop we found a dead steller sea lion and a great deal of eagle activity. We had supper in the lee of the island listening to eagle and raven calls and returned home. We learned later that the T137’s were rejoined by the T49A’s and T65A’s who porpoised 12 knots to meet them at Pt Doughty near sunset.
Sailing North passed Yellow Island
T137A transient/Biggs Orca
T137s hunting off Canoe Island
T 137s hunting in Upright Channel, Lopez Island
T137As tail fluke
Bald Eagle
Eagle landing
Sailing Whale watching San Juan Island
King Fisher
Sailing Upright Head, Lopez Island
Bald Eagle Upright Head, Lopez Island
Eagle nest Upright Head, Lopez Island
Sail boat in Harney channel
T137As Backlit Blows
T137A hunting Pole Pass, Orcas Island
T137s going through Pole Pass
Lucky Harbor Seal escapes Transient Orcas with a fish
Transient/Biggs Orcas T137s passing Orcas Island
Wing on wing sail to Flattop Island
Eagle Nest Flattop Island
Eagles scavenge Steller sea Lion Carcass, Flattop Island
Eagles scavenge Steller sea Lion Carcass, Flattop Island
Immature Ba;ld eagles
Harbor Seals
Bald Eagle downwind to final approach
Bald Eagle prepares to land
Bald Eagle calling
Afternoon light sailing San Juan Islands
Into wind sailing San Juan Islands
Black Oyster Catcher