All Aboard Sailing

Circumnavigating San Juan Island seeing Resident orcas, porpoises and a humpback whale

Circumnavigating San Juan Island seeing Resident orcas, porpoises and a humpback whale

 June 1st 2022. Sailed South, out through Cattle Pass and North in Haro Strait to circumnavigate San Juan Island. Raccoons foraged the tide line of Turn Island. Steller sea ions…

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Sailing south with distant views of J pod

Sailing south with distant views of J pod

May 31, 2022 – Half day sail south. Our sail included a wide variety of wildlife including black oystercatchers, raccoons, bald eagles, vultures, harbor seals, Steller sea lions, cormorants, loons and…

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Humpbacks Lucky & Divot followed by J Pod orcas

Humpbacks Lucky & Divot followed by J Pod orcas

May 30, 2022 –  Double hitter today – humpbacks and orcas! It was quite the day for whale watching seeing two humpback whales identified as BCX0419 “Lucky” and BCX1057 “Divot”…

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Biggs/Transient Orcas T123’s then the T60’s and T109C’s

Biggs/Transient Orcas T123’s then the T60’s and T109C’s

May 28, 2022 – It was quite the day for whale watching seeing the Biggs/Transient orcas T123’s followed by T2B with the T60’s (minus T60D and T60E) plus the T109C’s.…

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Finding Biggs orca T49A1 in Rosario and T137’s outside Friday Harbor

Finding Biggs orca T49A1 in Rosario and T137’s outside Friday Harbor

May 25, 2022 – What a fun sail we had heading out into Rosario Strait and finding lone male orca T49A1 as he was steadily southbound. The next afternoon he…

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Humpback whale BCX1383 “Glacier” passes Friday Harbor and J pod in Boundary Pass

Humpback whale BCX1383 “Glacier” passes Friday Harbor and J pod in Boundary Pass

May 24, 2022 – Another exciting, memorable day on the water for us – today we met a new to us humpback whale. We identified it as BCX1383 “Glacier” after comparing…

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