Tuesday, July 22

Today's tours were spend on the west side of the American Island of San Juan. We found ourselves travelling from Cattle Point on the south to Kellett Bluff on the north with one of our resident pods of Orcas, J-pod. We enjoyed watching members ranging from Granny (J2, 97 yr old matriarch) and Ruffles (J1, 57 yr old mature male) to J42 (unnamed, 1 1/2 yr old female calf). Most of our time was spent watching the whales forage for salmon close to the shoreline. We were fortunate enough to see other more social behaviours such as breeching and tail slapping. On our evening tour we even had Polaris (J28, female) travel around our boat vocalizing, which was listen to by passengers through our hydrophone. Another fabulous day on the water!