August 15, 2006

Today was a beautiful day on the water … flat seas all day and sunny conditions. Unfortunately this morning we had no reports of the whales so we traveled towards San Juan Island to one of their favourite feeding areas to see if we could find them. We did come across quite a few Harbour seals at Chain Islands as well at the Cormorants.

This afternoon’s trip we were in better luck as we found some transient killer whales making their way down to Seattle. As we came on scene we noticed there were about a dozen whales in their resting mode. It was wonderful to see all the whales surfacing at the same time – wonderful photo opportunities! (Resting is a whale’s version of sleep where they shut down ½ of their brain at a time to rest it, keeping the other ½ awake.)

This evening’s trip the transient killer whales were too far our of our range so we decided to go west. Again the whales weren’t seen, but we did get a great look at Race Rocks and all the pinnipeds there.