Tuesday, August 21

This morning’s trip was a challenge to find wildlife as the western coast fog was nice and thick. We did have some nice views of the Harbour Seals hauled out on the rocks on the Chain Islands. We then made our way over to Race Rocks where we saw the Sea Lions resting on the rocks. Our patience did pay off because we finally heard word of a Humpback just east of Race and made our way over and had some fantastic views of the large whale.

For the afternoon trip we had a wildlife fiasco. We began our trip by going to visit the Humpback that we had seen in the morning. After viewing the Humpback for a nice period of time we were pleasantly surprised to have Transient Orcas swim right by us. The pod had one large male and three or four juvenile males and/or females. So we had orcas swimming by with the Humpback following behind, porpoises were seen coming up for breaths of air and even an Elephant Seal poked his head out during our trip, what a great afternoon along the Juan de Fuca Strait.

For the evening trip, the Transient Orcas had traveled far west along the Juan de Fuca Strait. We decided to take a chance and try to catch up with the whales. And we were rewarded! We caught up with the pod at Otter Point and had some nice views of all the whales traveling. We even had time on our trip back to stop by Race Rocks, where we saw California and Stellar Sea Lions. We could hear the different calls from the species as a few of them fought for spots on the rocks.