Wednesday, July 25

Whales, Whales, Whales! Another great day on the waters surrounding southern Vancouver Island. Our morning trip was spent southwest of Victoria’s Harbour; Crescent Bay, Washington. Here we enjoyed a great view of 2 feeding Humpbacks. On our way back to Victoria we were able to see many Harbour seals, Stellar sea lions and a single Bald Eagle at Race Rocks Marine Reserve.

The afternoon’s tour started with reports of Orcas coming east up the Strait of Juan de Fuca towards Victoria’s waterfront. Once on scene, we were very excited to see “superpod” (this is when all 3 of our Southern Resident pods are together in one area). Everyone onboard enjoyed the view as a young male breached as if to say hello!

On our evening tour we were heading to the west shore of San Juan Island (an American Island) to view J & K pods. We were pleasantly surprised to spot a small feeding Gray whale at the northern end of Trail Island. After a few great looks we continued on to our Resident Orcas. As one of our guests said onboard “That is …. WOW.”