L pod in all of its glory. Our whale encounter began with Mega, my all time favorite resident. We were just south of eagle point with no other whale watching boats in sight and out of no where a huge dorsal fin came to the surface. We stopped and waited to see where he was headed. He was moving south toward us so we shut down and waited. It was glassy flat, calm and quiet until his exhalation cut the silence like a jet engine. He meandered in our direction and then slowly swooped around and took a 90 degree turn out away from us. He milled back and forth for a while until he was several hundred yards away from us. We started up again and continued north.
Up toward the north end of San Juan we encountered the rest of the pod. They were very spread out. They looked to be fishing. There was some surface activity here and there but with long dive times. We got a few looks at a couple of females and juveniles and one other large male. We headed home through the Speiden channel and topped it all off with a bald eagle.
Laura