Humpbacks and Orcas Fill the Salish Sea

Humpbacks and Orcas Fill the Salish Sea

As humpback whales continue to arrive on their migrations from their wintering waters in Hawaii, Mexico, and Central America we have been seeing large concentrations of them, especially out near Port Angeles and the Canadian Border! Big feeding groups of 30-40...
May Whale Watching Update

May Whale Watching Update

We’ve had a great month of May so far with warm sunny weather and lots of whales. Humpback whales are starting to roll in a little more each week, and we are seeing a fair share of minke whales. Bigg’s killer whales in several families have been abundant so far this...
Opening Weekend for 2023 Port Angeles Whale Watching Tours

Opening Weekend for 2023 Port Angeles Whale Watching Tours

May 13-14, 2023 was the opening weekend for our Port Angeles Half-Day Whale Watching tours and wow did the weather and whales cooperate! On Sunday, we were gifted with terrific sightings of the T137 124D and 71B families of Bigg’s orcas, along with 124A2. In...
Chainsaw and Harbeson

Chainsaw and Harbeson

We are heading into summer and Puget Sound has become a bright sunny place with the forecast showing nothing but sun for the next week, perfect for whale watching! Today’s post features our May 11 tour where we saw two matrilines of killer whales, T124A2 &...
Dramatic Bigg’s Orca Hunt of Sea Lion

Dramatic Bigg’s Orca Hunt of Sea Lion

We sure had an epic trip from Edmonds on May 10, 2023 with orcas and gray whales. It started out with excitement right off the bat when we spotted Bigg’s killer whales hunting a California sea lion near Alki Point 20 minutes into our trip. Sea lion hunts tend to...
A Super Pod of Bigg’s Orcas in Rosario Strait

A Super Pod of Bigg’s Orcas in Rosario Strait

Super Pod! We had an epic day on our May 2, 2023 Port Townsend Half-Day Whale Watch tour. We encountered a Bigg’s (transient) orca Super Pod near Rosario Strait. The T123, T99 and T36 families were present, along with the brothers T125A and T128. A gorgeous,...