Sept 15, 2025 – With a report of orcas heading for Spieden Channel from Haro Strait we headed north. After sailing through the Wasp Islands and cutting across San Juan…
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Sailing to New Channel and Flattop Island
Sept 14, 2025 – Moderate winds for sailing on what felt like an autumn day. Clouds came and went with occasional sprinkles. We were temped to go south but being…
Read moreBiggs/Transient Orcas T75B’s socializing by Stuart Island
Sept 12, 2025 – We left Friday Harbor with news of Biggs/Transient orcas T75B’s rounding Turn Pt and heading for New Channel. So we sailed north to the Wasp Islands…
Read moreBiggs/Transient Orcas T60D and T60E plus Humpback Whale BCY1463 “Malachite”
Sept 11, 2025 – With news of the Biggs/Transient orca brothers T60D (born 2004) and T60E (born 2008) northbound in Haro Strait we headed north. Along the San Juan Island…
Read moreBiggs/Transient Orcas T137’s come inter-island
Sept 10, 2025 – After casting off we headed south around Turn Island seeing resting harbor seals on the rocks. We tacked to sail through Cattle Pass seeing cormorants nests…
Read moreBiggs/Transient Orcas T36A1’s and T99’s by Spieden Island
Sept 9, 2025 – Sailing out from Friday Harbor we came over to Hicks Bay on Shaw Island uncertain whether to go north, south or east. Heading north we came…
Read moreMinke whales on Hein Bank and distant views of Southern Resident Orcas
Sept 8, 2025 – With the ebb current running we headed south today passing through Turn Island seeing harbor seals hauled out. Continuing on the ebb with some sailing on…
Read moreBiggs/Transient Orcas T75B’s by Skipjack Island
Sept 7, 2025 – Sailed north through the Wasp Islands seeing a bald eagle perched above the harbor seals at Nob Island/Shirt Tail Reef. We continued north to New Channel…
Read moreBiggs/Transient Orcas T75B’s found emerging from the fog
Sept 5, 2025 – Ribbons of sea mist hung over the landscape to the south. But with a report of Biggs/Transient orcas southwest side of the San Juan Island we…
Read moreBiggs/Transient Orcas T49A’s in Swanson Channel
Sept 4, 2025 – Sailed North with a report of Biggs/transient orcas of the T75B matriline rounding Henry Island. We came through the Wasp Islands and over to Green Point…
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