Breaching Humpback Whale!
Read MoreIt was another beautiful sunny day as our boat Cascadia left the dock in search of whales. Following a report up north, we encountered a pod fo 4 orcas near Nanoose, around Amelia Island. Three of these whales were members of the T49B matriline, which includes matriarch T49B “Van” and her offspring T49B2 “Skyler” and T49B3 “Charchar”.
Read MoreOur crew and guests headed out of Nanaimo at 12pm and followed a report up north along the eastern shore of Vancouver Island. Around Qualicum Bay we encountered approximately 8 orca, from a couple a different pods.
Read MoreOn April 19th, we travelled across the Strait of Georgia to find the T49A’s and T49B’s at Gibson’s Harbour near the Sunshine Coasts.
Read MoreOn April 17th we set sail with clear skies and high hopes. We traveled out into the Strait, doing a large loop infront of Nanaimo scanning the waters. We made a stop at Entrance Island to see all the Stellar Sea Lions, and a few California Sea Lions. After leaving we went back into the Strait, heading towards the shores of Vancouver.
After traveling south through the Strait we passed through Active Pass and headed through the Gulf Islands to the East side of Sidney Island. There we found our 10 Orcas, the T124A’s and the T124D’s.
Read MoreA sunny Day south of Howe Sound with the T49A’s.
Read MoreWhat a gorgeous day! It was a little breezy but the sun was shining and the Salish Sea was teaming with life. We found sea lions, seals, a humpback whale, and orca!
Read MoreApril 11th was a beautiful day out in the water and we were lucky enough to find Killer Whales at Neck Point!
Transient Killer Whale pods can join up like this to hunt together and socialize. It also gives the opportunity for a male and female of different pods to mate.
Read MoreThis was a great trip out on the water where we saw plenty of wildlife including Bald eagles, sea lions, seals, and finished the trip off with the T018’s. The T018’s are a pod of 4 consisting of three generations!
Read MoreIt was an exciting day on the water when we found a humpback whale in Trincomali Channel! Click here to read more about this unusual encounter.
Read MoreToday we found 2 pods of orcas traveling near Salt Spring Island, the T36A’s and the T49A’s.
Read MoreIt’s been awhile! After a long winter our crew was ecstatic to get back out on the water and explore our backyard in search of whales and other wildlife. Naturalist Val and Captain Rodrigo headed south into the Strait of Georgia and it didn’t take them too long to find killer whales!
And not just any killer whalse, they found the infamous “Chainsaw” (T063)! This adult male orca is easy to recognize because of his large, chainsaw-like dorsal fin. We quite often see him in the spring on our whale watching tours.
Read MoreNearly a dozen different humpbacks were seen between our two boats today! Woah!
Read MoreCascadia and Kula set off at 12pm from downtown Nanaimo to search for whales in the Salish Sea and boy did they find whales! It was a bit breezy to start, but that didn’t stop our crew from spotting spout after spout on the horzion. Humpback whales were everywhere!
Read MoreThe T18’s were busily foraging and travelling when we visited them today!
Read MoreIt was humpback soup out on the water on the 26th of September! We saw 7 humpbacks; Heather and Neowise, Raptor and Harpy, Snoopy, Sherwina, and one unknown. Not only did we get to see so many humpbacks but we also saw seals, sea lions and more in the Strait of Georgia!
Read MoreSeptember 22nd was a cloudy and calm day. We headed out on our semi-covered boat, Kula in search of whales and we found Zigzag near Valdes Island! Zigzag was doing lots of deep dives and flukes. After hanging with Zigzag for a while we found Divot and Strike near Galiano Island. We stuck with them for a little while since they weren’t that active and we found Zigzag again who was travelling south.
Read MoreToday our boats headed out into the strait searching for some whales. We found Heather and her calf Neowise in almost the same spot as the day before. There was a third humpback near by feeding and hanging out near our boats, but Neowise was the centre of the show, as usual.
Read MoreWe found Heather (BCY0160) and her calf Neowise hanging out in the Strait of Georgia not too far from home today. We also encountered the T60’s traveling past the south end of Prevost and Salt Spring islands.
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