Saturday, June 14

Our morning crew had a long trip out west where we had word that orcas we spotted past otter point. Our patient passengers were eventually rewarded when we finally spotted orcas way past our original destionation. The waters were calm and the orcas, both K and L-pod were extremely active with a lot of breaches and other splashing behaviour. A great way to start the morning!

In the afternoon we took another long trip out, but this time we headed east to see what J-pod was up to. We found them north of Cypress Island. We had an amazing pass by Slick and her newborn calf J-42 where we could see that the calf had that red coloring on its white areas. After a few tail slaps we said goodbye to the orcas and headed back to Victoria.

For our evening tour we headed south straight out of the harbour. Not too long after our departure we encountered a humpback whale! These whales are not often found in our waters so it is always a privilege to see them, especially this one since he/she was incredibly active. We observed a number of fluke lobbings and flipper slappings as he kept to the surface during most of our time there. After some incredible views, we headed over to Chain Island where we saw some Harbour Seals and a Bald Eagle perched on top of a Cormorant nest.

Here are some great Humpback photos taken by onboard biologist Corey: