September 22, 2022 – Great winds for sailing today. We decided to sail to some of our favorite wildlife refuges. Tacking our way up San Juan Channel we made it…
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Wildlife search by Flattop and Spieden Island
August 19, 2022 – Half day sail first southbound around Turn Island then northbound around Flattop Island and through New Channel.
Read moreYellow Island, Flattop Island and New Channel
April 29, 2022 – A visit to Yellow Island Nature Preserve plus a sail by Flattop Island and through New Channel.
Read moreA drizzly day and a stop at Yellow Island
April 27, 2022 – A mix of Pacific Northwest weather with a visit to Yellow Island Nature Preserve
Read moreSail to Turn Point Lighthouse with two humpbacks BCY0324 “Big Mama” and MMX0099.
Sailed North and met two humpbacks in Haro Strait which we ID’d as BCY0324 “Big Mama” and MMX0099. We were able to drift and slowly sailed wing on wing parallel…
Read moreL12s in the fog
September 12th 2017 South in San Juan Channel to the fog bank on Salmon Bank to find Southern Resident Killer Whales from L pod – the L12 subgroup (10 whales…
Read moreSmith Island Humpback, horned and tufted puffins
Sept 8, 2017 – Sailed South through islands cloaked in fog where visibility was minimal and our sense of sound heightened to the chatter of Black Oyster Catchers and the…
Read moreAround Lopez Island with the T18/19 Transient Orcas
Sailed down Rosario Straitand around Lopez Island with the T18/19 Transient Orcas (Mr Floppy Fin is the big male). We came through the pass of Castle Rock and the South…
Read moreSail Around Sucia
Aug 17th – We sailed a loop of our favorite islands. The photos say it all.
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…
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