2023  Gray Whale Season Featured 15 Sounders

2023 Gray Whale Season Featured 15 Sounders

We’ve had the second coldest April on record this year, but the gray whales don’t care at all, and they have been great. The count for returning “Sounder” gray whales is up to 15 now including one we haven’t seen inside Puget Sound in about 22 years (CRC 543). The...
13 Gray Whales Confirmed in our Area

13 Gray Whales Confirmed in our Area

The gray whale count for our returning “Sounders” is up to at least 12 now, plus we have an additional newbie making it 13!  We’ve seen the gray whale that’s new to our area off the west side of Whidbey Island a few times and it just got an ID number from Cascadia...
10 Gray Whale “Sounders” Have Returned!

10 Gray Whale “Sounders” Have Returned!

10 Gray Whale “Sounders” have returned to Puget Sound as of today! We’ve been able to document many of the first sightings of the year for our Sounders as they return to us from their northward migration from Baja California, Mexico over the last couple of weeks! The...
2023 Opening Weekend Sightings

2023 Opening Weekend Sightings

We had a successful opening weekend for our gray whale season.  On day one, Friday March 3, started out with a bang as we managed an orca/gray whale double header!  It was a group effort for sure starting with a lucky sighting from the dock 45 minutes before we...