Wednesday, October 1st

This morning we were one of the first boats out on the water. And it was beautiful on the water; quiet, calm, and sunny. We went north to the San Juan Islands, to find Resident Orcas breaching as we approached the scene. We initially had two calves playfully splashing around our boat, followed by a surrounding of Orcas darting for salmon. We watched and listened as they busily chatted away on the hydrophone with high pitch squeaks and whistles. And if that was not to amaze, only a mile or two off, splashes from a humpback whales breaching! We could see their enormous blows from far and soon we were with a mother and her calf. The crew was shocked as it is not very often we see these whales in the Haro Strait. Leaving the scene, we got a big wave from their enormous pectoral fin.