Wednesday, August 8

Today was a great 2 pod day! We were the first ones on the scene this morning as we traveled along San Juan Island and discovered K and J-pod traveling north along the shoreline. We had a fantastic pass by Mike, a sprouting male from J-pod and then not too long after that, Mike’s mum Slick along with the newborn baby (J-42) swam by as well. Newborn calves are easy to spot as they are born with Jaundice and therefore have a yellowish red color to their skin. We returned to the two pods for the afternoon trip and were fortunate to see a number of breaches from the same whale, who was a little too far away to identify. We also had two fantastic spy hops from J-42, who is clearly doing very well in her family group.