September is my favorite month in the San Juan Islands. The pace slow down a bit and the weather can be quite beautiful, which has been true for this past week.

We had several kayaking trips go out yesterday and today with near perfect conditions; sunny skies and calm seas. This week, guides have seen a ton of wildlife on the kayaks ranging from seals, to baby racoons to killer whales. On our 5-hour tour on Monday saw all 3 pods of orcas, which is called a superpod and is fairly rare to see. A few times a summer, all three pods join together to socialize and mate and this may last a few hours or a few days. But when this happens, there can be close to 90 whales in a relatively small area.

Our whale watching trips have been successful as well. We've been seeing whales consistently (about 90% of the time) although today was a trip in the 10% bracket which did not see whales. But I must say that they still had a wonderful wildlife trip. They saw harbor seals, bald eagles, 2,000 pound Stelllar Sea Lions, harbor porpoise and Dall's porpoise. A porpoise is quite similar to a dolphin, it is a cetacean which m akes it closely related to dolphins and whales but is smaller in size. Harbor porpoise tend to be shy while Dall's Porpoise are more friendly and may ride the bow waves on a boat, so if you are on the bow of the boat, you can look down and see them quite closely. This experience happened today and the guests had a great time.