Thursday, September 28th
The vessel headed out from Victoria and headed South into Juan de Fuca Strait. Within the first 20 minutes we had a sighting of a humpback but unfortunately did not see it surfacing again while we watched. We turned towards the East to Trial Island and the fog closed in so we turned back West and made a stop at Race Rocks. We saw various seals and sea lions hauled out on the rocks, both Californian and Stellar sea lions. We headed back round towards the first sighting of the humpback as other vessels had spotted glimpses of it, but it was being very elusive and we headed back towards Victoria.
In the Afternoon we travelled towards San Juan Island where there was a sub-pod, a breakaway group from the local residents in L-pod. We had views of Orcas travelling along, probably concerned with feeding and hunting below the water, and they were dispersed over a wide area. We dropped the hydrophone and were greeted with silence at first but later heard a few echo-locating clicks used for hunting and squeaks and squeals used for communicating.
The vessel headed out from Victoria and headed South into Juan de Fuca Strait. Within the first 20 minutes we had a sighting of a humpback but unfortunately did not see it surfacing again while we watched. We turned towards the East to Trial Island and the fog closed in so we turned back West and made a stop at Race Rocks. We saw various seals and sea lions hauled out on the rocks, both Californian and Stellar sea lions. We headed back round towards the first sighting of the humpback as other vessels had spotted glimpses of it, but it was being very elusive and we headed back towards Victoria.
In the Afternoon we travelled towards San Juan Island where there was a sub-pod, a breakaway group from the local residents in L-pod. We had views of Orcas travelling along, probably concerned with feeding and hunting below the water, and they were dispersed over a wide area. We dropped the hydrophone and were greeted with silence at first but later heard a few echo-locating clicks used for hunting and squeaks and squeals used for communicating.
