Tuesday, June 23rd

Today Captain John and Naturalists Cassie and Jenna traveled with our passengers out into the Salish Sea in search of Killer Whales. For the first time in a few days, this did not involve much travel or searching at all as the whales were to be found on the Victoria waterfront just 15 minutes away at Trial Island. Here we met up with many members of the J and L-pods. The whales put on quite the display on this summer afternoon. They made sure to go through their whole repertoire of tail lobs, spy hops, pectoral slaps, and even some porpoising by some of the huge mature males. What really took the cake though was the breaching fiesta that took place. Whales big and small took part in hurling their bodies out of the water multiple times! It was quite an amazing sight. We finished off our tour with a look around some of the small islands in the area including Discovery Island, Chatham Island, and the Chain Islets looking at some of the bird life in the area. Another day with lots of smiling passengers and naturalists!