Sunday, May 31st

Wow, what an experience! This afternoon, we left the dock with a report of transient orcas in the area. Sure enough, only 20 minutes after leaving the dock, we arrived at Constance Bank where we found 3 transients: T12A, a large bull, as well asT109A and her offspring T109A2. All three transients were whales that I (naturalist Corey) have not seen in my five years at Orca Spirit! We had an absolutely fantastic viewing experience in flat calm seas. The magnificent apex predators were thrilling to watch. After several minutes one truly superb pass, we left to see what else we could find, finding some harbour porpoise near Race Rocks. In Race Rocks, we were excited to see some elephant seals and harbour seals and were somewhat surprised to spot a couple of harbour seals. We left Race Rocks and headed back to the harbour, but not before one last amazing look at the transient orcas.