June 27, 2026 – Short sunset sail around the Wasp Islands. Black oystercatchers with their chicks on Low Island, great blue herons, harlequin ducks. Sunset, full moon rise.
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Sail around San Juan Island with T65A Transient Orcas, a Loon, and an Osprey
September 2nd 2017 We sailed South through Cattle Pass and circumnavigated San Juan Island. Took New Channel and met Transient orca family T65As hunting near Cowlitz Bay, Waldron Island. Surprised…
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Sept 9th – Everything we saw on our trip today was beautiful. Lots of bald eagles – more than we’ve seen in over a month. Encountered a group of Dall’s…
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Sept 7th – Today felt like the rainiest day we’ve had in a long time. Luckily there was a break in the raindrops as we encountered two humpback whales in…
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There once was a whale called Michael Finnegan He blew out and then blew in again Then grew whiskers on his chin again Poor old Michael Finnigan, begin again… The second…
Read moreMinke whales foraging and around San Juan Island for a spectacular sunset
Around the Island in October – Autumn Sailing – So good to see so many diving birds and gulls pointing out the resurgence in schools of herring. And especially thrilling…
Read moreT49A Transient Orcas pass Friday Harbor Whale Museum
Gorgeous light of late September day with Transient Orca whale family T49As in San Juan Channel. Once again they pass the Port of Friday Harbor beneath a mural of an…
Read moreSeptember equinox sail – Fall is coming
Sailed North passed McConnel Island, Jones and Flattop. Many Harbor Porpoise in the deep waters of Minke Pond. Crystal light brought out the colors of Sitka Deer grazing in leaf…
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Sailed South passed Whale Rocks and South of Lopez to McArthur Bank. Two Humpbacks surfaced together with the Olympic mountains beyond. Bald Eagle, Long Island, Lopez
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Good clear calls on the hydrophone from the J16s to the South of Whale Rocks
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