July 5, 2020 – Our first grand slam! We sailed south and hugged the San Juan Island shoreline down to Cattle Pass. A minke whale was lunge feeding on Salmon…
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Our Southern Resident orcas are here! Sailing with K12’s and K13’s and a humpback whale MMZ0004 Zephyr
July 1, 2020 – Lots of excitement as soon as we woke this morning with news that K pod had arrived to San Juan Island. We’d been expecting them after…
Read moreA look at J Pod
August 15, 2019 – It was a fun sail circumnavigating San Juan Island. During our trip we got a distant view of J pod as they traveled up the shoreline…
Read moreA sail seeing Southern Residents from J and K pods
July 6, 2019 – It was a fun, adventurous sail around the islands. Initially we made a choice to sail south with the ebb to see if we could find…
Read moreJ pod at Iceberg Point
Sailing to meet J pod at Iceberg Point, Lopez Island
Read morePhenomenal sail – J, K and L pod Southern Resident Orcas
September 18, 2018 – Sailed north tacking through Yellow Island and Spring Pass. Moving quickly along the shoreline of Waldron Island as we’d heard Southern Resident Orcas headed south in…
Read moreBow riding Pacific white-sided dolphins and Southern Resident orcas.
September 17th 2019 – North through Spieden Channel meeting J pod on the South Side of Stuart Island heading to Turn Point Lighthouse. We were joined by Lisa Lamb, the happy hermit of Stuart Island, who paddled out to join us. On crossing Boundary Pass into Canada we were surrounded by Pacific White Sided dolphins who emanated pure joy leaping around us. Rejoining J pod at Pender Bluffs before sailing back via New Channel and Flattop Island.
Read moreSailed South with news of Southern Resident Orcas Inbound
September 13th, 2018 – Sailed South with news of Southern Resident Orcas Inbound passing Race Rocks. We passed Turn Rock with quite a boost from the ebbing tide. Then crossing…
Read moreLast sighting of J50, Scarlet
September 7, 2018 – We set sail against the flood passing the kelp forests at Turn Rock and crossing to the Lopez Island shoreline. With strong current at Cattle Pass…
Read moreSouthern Resident Orcas return to San Juan Island
September 2, 2018 We sailed South on the ebb with news of J pod returning from the Fraser River and approaching the West side of San Juan Island. We came…
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