July 27, 2006

This morning we headed over towards San Juan Island in hopes to find one of our resident pods feeding along the shoreline. As soon as we got on scene we found a group of whales (J-Pod) traveling towards us! There was quite a bit of socializing and porpoising observed and we even watched as one whale breached 8 times in a row!

When we caught up with J-Pod on our afternoon tour they hadn’t moved much as they were feeding around Lime Kiln Lighthouse. Passengers were extremely excited to watch a young whale breach a couple of times as well as observe a couple of whales spyhop. On our way home we came through Chain Islands to see the young Harbour seal pups and Seagull chicks scurrying around the rocks.

On this evening’s tour we traveled to Turn Point. On arrival the whales appeared to be foraging, yet just moments later 6 whales began porpoising past the boat. After repositioning, we had Blackberry (J27), a 15 year old sprouting male, surface several times in great photo range. An enjoyable tour was finished by a calming sunset cruise back to Victoria.