April 14th

With reports of killer whales this afternoon in Haro Strait, we headed to San Juan Island to find one of our Southern Resident pods, J-pod, in a resting pattern near Eagle Point on the south end of the island. Most of the whales were in a large group that included two of our favourites, Granny (J2), the 96-year old matriarch of J-pod and Ruffles (J1), the oldest male in the southern resident community.
When whales are resting, they often surface and dive in unison, which is truly an amazing sight.

After leaving the whales, we travelled back to Victoria, where we stopped first at Great Chain Island to view the cormorant nests and look for eagles. The last stop of the afternoon was Trial Island, where we observed several harbour seals hauled out on the rocks with a large mature bald eagle watching perched on a nearby sign. It was a fine end to another great trip.