Sunday, July 22

With the continuous foggy, rainy weather that Victoria has been experiencing this week, we managed to continue using the newest addition to our fleet, the Pacific Explorer. Fortunately this vessel (with large, indoor seating) kept the crew and guest very comfortable during our trips. We managed to find a humpback in the afternoon just north of Port Angeles. And we were happy we did! He/she was incredibly active, continuously pushing the water around with his large fluke and sometimes his pectoral fin. Every now and again he would come up to lunge feed and we managed to have some great views of his mouth and baleen plates. We finished the trip by heading over to Race Rocks where we were greeted by a few Stellar Sea Lions, who are beginning to make to way back to the area after the breeding season.