May 11, 2026 – Raising sails as we left Friday Harbor for a beam reach down island on the ebb. Wing on wing through Turn Island Pass watched by the…
Read moreDouble dose of Orcas! Hunting on Salmon Bank and southbound by Friday Harbor
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…
Read moreCircumnavigating 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…
Read moreBiggs 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.…
Read moreSailing 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…
Read moreBiggs/Transient Orcas T36A1’s, T46B1’s and T51 around South Lopez Island
June 20, 2024 – After leaving Friday Harbor we chose to go south. We took the narrow channel around Turn Island passing foraging racoons, a pair of bald eagles, and…
Read moreBiggs/Transient Orcas T46B1’s Inter-Island
June 14, 2024 – We scooted our sail earlier on account of Biggs/Transient orcas coming north up San Juan Channel. The family is known as the T46B1’s, three orcas total.…
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