Thursday, August 16

Our residents have returned!!!! After about a week feeding off the west side of Vancouver Island, we were greeted by 87 Orcas, as they traveled east up the Strait of Juan de Fuca towards Victoria. We had a great day as we viewed several small groups of Orcas as they breached (jumping clear of the water), spy hopped (brought their heads out to look around) and tail slapped. Throughout the day we were able to identify different individuals such as, Ruffles (J1), Faith (L57), Cappuccino (K21), all of which are fully mature males. We also were able to see other marine mammals like harbour and elephant seals and stellar and California sea lions as they hauled out on the rocks of Race Rocks and the Chain Islands.

See Captain John's photos below.