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K-pod today! We identified K-21, Cappuccino. Cappuccino was born in 1986 and is a male. He was traveling with a female known as Deadhead, K-27. K-pod has 19 individuals and is the smallest of the three pods that make up the Southern Resident Community of killer whales. The Southern Resident Killer...Read more

Today we headed north in the San Juan Channel. We had a few sightings of orcas earlier at False Bay on the west side ofSan Juan Island. We were originally c onsidering going south. But as we motored out of Friday Harbor, we hear d that the orcas were moving up on the west side of San Juan Island -...Read more

Can go awry. You design a vacation around a wild animal that decides that it does not want to be on display that week. You devise a foolproof schedule and then the world conspires against you and nothing is on time. You take every precaution and still chaos ensues. Such was our week in the whale...Read more

As the orcas sought food and adventure in the waters of the pacific, so we sought peace and relaxation amongst the islands. We were without whales today, but our guests did not suffer for it. Capt. Nancy took the MV Sea Lion, guest naturalist Russell and me on a beautiful wildlife cruise under warm...Read more

L-pod near Anacortes today! We left San Juan Island and headed toward Anacortes, once on scene we were able to identify a few individuals from L-pod. There was a lot of activity today, breaching, tail slapping and spy hopping. Everyone was very excited. We stayed with the orcas for about an hour...Read more

It may not sound glamorous, but the day we had today on the MV Sea Lion definitely was. Capt. Craig got us out the door in a hurry since the orcas were all the way up in Active Pass between Galiano and Mayne Islands. It was petal-to-the-metal the whole way and in two hours we were northeast of the...Read more

We love days that start off with great sighting reports. The first sighting of the day- killer whales at Race Rocks, near Victoria, heading northeast. This was good news. We loaded the boat, motored out of Friday Harbor and headed south toward Cattle Pass. We had some fun sea conditions- small...Read more

Welcome to the Pacific Northwest! We went from a sunny hot 4th of July weekend to a cool overcast/drizzly 60 degrees in a matter of days! After the weekend I forgot that I should always have my fleece hat with me. It's been a rainy and cool couple of days, but no wind. And the wind is all I care...Read more