August 19 – August 25
This continues to be an extraordinarily epic year for killer whale sightings. This week we saw orcas on all 11 trips. Year to date we have seen orcas on 150 out of 177 tours, a sighting rate for killer whales of 84.7 percent! I am very excited to see what the years to come are […]
August 12- August 18
We had an absolutely epic week of whale watching, sighting killer whales on all 13 tours! This week we had visits from the T049A, T075B, T060, T099, and T065A pods of orcas. We had several incredible encounters this week. But I think my favorite may have been on Monday mornings tour, when we encountered the […]
August 5 – August 11
We had a fun week exploring the Salish Sea this week. We saw whales on all 13 tours, and sighted killer whales on 7 of 13 of them. The second half of the week was even better then the first half as we saw orcas on 7 of the final 8 tours of the week. […]
July 29 – August 4
It was another great week of adventuring in the Salish Sea this week. Killer whale sightings did finally slow down a little bit this week, we saw them on 6 out of 12 trips (only in the pacific northwest would seeing killer whales on 50% of trips be considered a slow week for orcas!). I […]
July 22 – July 28
We had another absolutely lovely week of whale watching in the Salish Sea. Unfortunately, our long streak of orca whale sightings finally ended at 48 in a row. On Thursday, we did not sight any whales on the morning tour (only our second tour of the year out of 127 with no whales!), and in […]
July 15 – July 21
The incredible run of orca whale sightings continued this week, we saw them on all 13 tours, and we are now up to 43 tours in a row seeing orcas. This week we had encounters with the T046B, T075B, T077, T109A2, T065B, T075, T86A, and T124A families of killer whales. This was another week with […]
July 8 – July 14
Another week of AMAZING summer weather and orca whales. We saw killer whales on all 11 tours this week, and we are now up to orca whale sightings on 89 out of 102 tours this year…absolutely incredible! While the Pacific Northwest is known for orcas, this year has been extra amazing for orca sightings. The […]
July 1 – July 7
Wow, it feels like summer got here all of the sudden! We had some very warm weather this week which was amazing for our zodiac! We went out on 13 tours this week, and we saw killer whales on all of them. It was a slow week for baleen whale sightings, with just one humpback […]
June 24 – June 30
We are now fully in the thick of our 2024 whale watching season. This week was wonderful, we did have our first tour of the year with no whales unfortunately on wednesday, but we saw whales on 10 of the other 11 tours this week, including killer whales on all 10 of those trips! This […]
June 17 – June 23
As we approach the summer solstice, whale watching in the Pacific Northwest continues to be amazing! This week we saw whales on every tour, and killer whales on 8 out of 10 tours. This week we had visits from the T099, T046B, T036A, T034, T037, and T037A families of killer whales. We also had a […]