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Minke whales on Hein and Salmon Banks & Biggs/Transient Orcas T46B’s west from Hein Bank

Minke whales on Hein and Salmon Banks & Biggs/Transient Orcas T46B’s west from Hein Bank

July 13, 2025 – Took advantage of the ebb current to drift through Turn Island Pass and tack our way down San Juan Channel to Whale Rocks. There were gull…

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Circumnavigating Orcas Island with Biggs/Transient Orcas T46B’s northbound Rosario Strait

Circumnavigating Orcas Island with Biggs/Transient Orcas T46B’s northbound Rosario Strait

July 8, 2025 – After casting off we headed inter-island with news of a family of Biggs/Transient orcas, the T46B’s, moving north in Rosario Strait. We came through Peavine Pass…

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Biggs Orcas T46B’s with new calf T46B3A outside Friday Harbor

Biggs Orcas T46B’s with new calf T46B3A outside Friday Harbor

April 5, 2025 – We left Friday Harbor with news of Biggs orcas northbound in San Juan Channel. A group of Steller sea lions were hanging out near Minnesota Reef.…

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Sailing with Biggs/Transient orcas T46B’s

Sailing with Biggs/Transient orcas T46B’s

September 28, 2024 – A family of Biggs/Transient orcas known as the T46B’s (minus T46B1’s who we’d seen the previous day in north Haro by Stuart Island) were zig zagging…

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