Kelpie, 2 mystery humpbacks, Anvil, Smiley and Fader entertain our boats in the morning. Kelpie, Anvil, Smiley, Fader and the T137’s make an appearance during the afternoon.
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A morning tour with the T46’s and Kelpie and an afternoon with the Bachelor trio, T49A2, T77C and T77D, as well as Kelpie, Anvil and Smiley the Humpbacks.
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Slate and Calf traveling off the Eastern shore of Galiano Island.
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Over 2 dozen orca were spotted between our two trips today! Woah!
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The T46’s were happily splashing around when we saw them today. Zigzag and her calf were also spotted during the tour!
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Slate and calf put on quite the show today, as did our T-party of 3 pods of orca!
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T37A, T137 and T65A’s continue the party in the strait of Georgia!
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T party near the border with the T37A’s, T137’s, T65A’s and T36A2. Slate and son make another appearance as well.
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A breaching humpback and a t-party of Biggs orca were spotted during today’s tour!
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Split Fluke, her calf, and their friend were happily foraging in the Strait of Georgia when we visited them today. We also witnessed a Turkey Vulture and Eagle lunch party along one of our Harbour Seal haulouts.
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On July 29th we had whale soup in our backyard!
Our morning boats headed south and encountered a pod of killer whales just south of Dodd Narrows, the T90s. We also found Slate and her calf traveling with Fader near Gabriola. And then again, the T90s in Nanaimo Harbour!
Our afternoon boats caught back up with the T90’s and then encountered even more humpbacks that we were able to ID as Niagara, Poptart, and Zig Zag and her calf!
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This afternoon we visited a T-party of Transient orca! T-parties occur when multiple pods come together. Today we had the T37A’s visiting with the T46’s and the T137’s. The T37A’s and T137’s have been spotted together frequently in the past month. Volker (T37A), the Matriarch of the T37A’s, has been swimming very close with Jack (T137A) during every encounter we have had with them in the past few weeks.
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Our vessels Kula and Cascadia left the dock at 10:30 and headed out into the calm waters of the Strait of Georgia. We found two humpback whales near Valdes Island who were filter feeding the water column.
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One of our “regular” was feeding with her new calf just outside of Porlier Pass, near Galiano Island. After getting some good photographs of the dorsal fin and the underside and trailing edge of the fluke, we were able to identify this huge whale as “Divot” (BCX1057).
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Cascadia set out into flat calm conditions at 3:30pm in search of wildlife and after about an hour and a bit we encountered a large humpback whales diving in the Strait of Georgia. Humpback whales can grow to be larger than 50 feet and weigh about a tonne per foot!
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Barracuda and Delta the humpbacks were happily foraging away when we observed them today. The T37A’s were also travelling with a friend - T124C!
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The T137s and friends were busily traveling along the Vancouver coastline when we visited them today.
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For our afternoon tour on July 24th, our semi-covered boat Kula set out again in search of whales. We found a pod of 7 orcas just east of Galiano island! The pod that was travelling here was the T65A’s. We also found 3 humpbacks that included Zephyr and her calf and also the T37A’s.
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The conditions were perfect as our vessels set out at 10:30am to search for wildlife in the Salish Sea. About an hour into the tour we encountered some humpback whales near Porlier Pass, the gap between Valdes and Galiano Island.
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We had an action-packed day on July 23rd with lots of killer whales and humpbacks around in the Salish Sea!
Our morning boats headed northeast towards the city of Vancouver to discover an active pod of orcas hunting in Howe Sound.
In the afternoon our boats set out at 3:30 and headed south through Dodd Narrows and into the Gulf Islands. Less than an hour into the search and we came across a large group of Bigg’s killer whales!
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