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.…
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Transient Orca family T77’s circumnavigate San Juan Island today
We cut through Mosquito Pass to meet the T77’s (first reported at Eagle Cove) hunting in Open Bay. They took the shoreline of Kellett Bluff past Roche Harbor and began…
Read moreTwo male whales traveling together
Good wind in Haro Strait gave us a broad reach to Mandarte Island where we met northbound orcas, T124C and T49C, two males traveling together. We sailed parallel north to…
Read moreT-Party at Mandarte
Afternoon T-Party at Mandarte Island. 23 whales: T36, T36A’s, T36B’s, T49C, T73A’s, T75B’s, T99’s, T123’s, T124C. Highly social party games with adult only behavior. Some photos are not suitable for…
Read moreAfternoon Ts
Afternoon sail and we lucked out again. Transients, T36A’s, T75B’s, T123’s, and T124C. They met us at White Rock and exhibited hunting behavior – turning abruptly towards Cactus Islands, porpoising…
Read moreMorning Minke
Morning sail and we lucked out with a minke whale in Minke Pond, North of San Juan Island. Newborn harbor seals, eagle activity, and we’re ecstatic to find, for the first…
Read moreYellow Island in Juneuary
Passengers joined from the beach off Lopez Island using the Bullfrog tender. Sufficient winds to sail inside of Turn Island and continued wing on wing to Yellow Island. Anchoring and…
Read moreTransient Orca whales – the T73A’s visit Friday Harbor
Transient orcas, T73A’s, visit Friday Harbor coming in the south entrance past the Ferry Dock and out through the north entrance. They hugged the shoreline past the University Labs continuing…
Read moreSummer solstice sunset moonrise sail
Evening sail through summer solstice. Sunset full moon rise catching the flood and ebb around Spieden Island with sika and fallow deer running under the moon. Barbecued salmon supper at…
Read moreSail to celebrate 25th Anniversary
Sail to celebrate a 25th Anniversary. Downwind against the flood through Cattle Pass to meet incoming transient orcas, T46’s and T73A’s. We all ran the flood up the west side.…
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