Monday, May 14th

We started the week strong with an amazing afternoon tour. Our whale spotting network lead us to the north west side of the American San Juan Islands.

Although the whales were along the shoreline and hard to view at first, our patience prevailed. We had a great afternoon in the sun watching J-pod. When we first got on scene they were spread out feeding, but after a few breeches, tail slaps and a spyhop, they group together in a resting pattern. While resting, we were able to see all 25 members surface within moments of each other. This behaviour allowed us to get a good look at J42, a 2 week old female calf, born to Slick (J16).

On our tour back to Victoria we stopped at The Chain Islands where we saw an immature bald eagle perch on the rocks next to the Cormorant’s next and many harbour seals both hauled out on the rocks and swimming in the surrounding waters.