Breaching Humpbacks Stealing the Show

July of 2016 will go down in history as being one of the most memorable whale watching months we’ve ever seen in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to transient and resident orcas, we’ve had a group of nearly 20 humpbacks in the Salish Sea – and they...

Large Fin Whale Sighted Again in Salish Sea

in 2015, Puget Sound Express was the first whale watching company in the Pacific Northwest to sight a rare fin whale in the Salish Sea. Luck was on our side again last week when we once again made initial contact with a second, larger fin whale (the first of 2016)!...

We’re Seeing Unprecedented Numbers of Humpbacks

Much has been made in the last few years of the “Humpback Comeback” in the Salish Sea, the return of North Pacific humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) to these inland waters after once being decimated by commercial whaling. Well, not only have they come back;...