It’s been fairly quiet at the dock at our Roche Harbor location (Kevin and Alex are holding down the fort!). Even with this cooler & foggy weather, we are fully operational and running all kayak and whale watch trips as usual. This morning, kayak guide Brittany had three of the coolest women ever paddling on a three hour trip. They were having a pretty normal kayak trip; seals, bald eagles, jelly fish, star fish, porpoise, etc… Then! All of a sudden, two huge bald eagles...

It’s been a crazy busy day at the dock at our main Roche Harbor location. We had full a group of nearly 25 guests go out with us at 9:30am in addition to full tours at 10 and 10:30. Every single kayak we own is being used today. All of 'em. That's a lot of kayaks! As I’m writing this, we have family groups and a group of very excited Boy Scouts getting geared up for their 3-hour paddles.

Philip, Chase, & Nick, Jesse, and Michael saw a ton of harbor seals and harbor seal...

The whales really are everywhere! We have confirmed reports of 5 different groups of whales in the Haro Strait today. L Pod is heading east, K Pod south of False Bay, Js near Turn Point (on Stuart Island), unidentified Ts heading into a fog bank, and also whales inbound from Jordon River. That’s a lot of whales! Even as am writing this, we are still getting a barrage of updates on locations. Captain Brian and Naturalist Tiffany on the Sea Hawk were with Ks all morning!

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The Sea Hawk (with Captain Bill and Naturalist Kevin) just got back to Roche Harbor and their guests were all smiles! I don’t think I’ve ever a group of our guests so excited. Kevin summed it up as one of the best activity days so far this season. There were multiple full body breeches as well as other surface activity. Kevin confirmed that the whales were members of K pod. The biggest highlight of the trip was when K27 and her new born calf, K44 (born this past Wednesday...

It is officially official that all three pods (J, K, and L) are here. Earlier this summer, K pod made a brief appearance, but then left for open ocean and wasn’t seen regularly until a few days ago. We are very excited that K27, Deadhead, had a new born calf yesterday! K44, a male, is one of several new babies in the Southern Resident Community this summer. The Center of Whale Research (http://www.whaleresearch.com/index.html) is still conducting their annual Southern...

Hello summer! Yes folks, it is officially summer time on San Juan Island. Today, myself and Taylor (reservation staff) and Chris (one of the dock masters!) are holding down the desk and dock at our Roche Harbor location and it is sunny and 75 degrees. One of our guides, Don, said it was so hot he would melt!

We had a very busy weekend. At one point, we had four different multi-day trips out on the water! Our multi-day adventures involve packing up our double and triple...

We had an all around amazing day on the water. Our Whale Watch boat, the Sea Hawk with Naturalist Kevin and Captain Nancy saw members of our Southern Resident Orca population near Boundary Pass. There was another group of whales that came in from the south and were milling around south of the Lime Kiln Lighthouse.

The true highlight of our day, however, were the cute and curious harbor seals we commonly see in this area. We do have a year-round population of about 4000...

Lots of new updates! Today, we have confirmed reports of over 70 Southern Resident Orcas in addition to the Transient Orcas we have been seeing this last week.

Currently, our whale watch vessel, the Sea Hawk (with Naturalist Kevin and Captain Brian) is observing all of J Pod heading south along the west side of San Juan Island. For those of you who are not familiar with the summer travel patterns of the fish-eating Southern Resident Orca population, the west side of San...

J-pod was observed on the west side of San Juan Island in the past half hour. They were first spotted (most recently) on Saturday in the strait of Juan de Fuca eastbound (towards the San Juan Islands). Hopefully this means they are around for the spring/early summer now.
For those who are familiar with the Lime Kiln hydrophone, apparently vocalizations have been heard today.

Transient Killer Whales Spotted again this afternoon on the west side of San Juan Island! This will be 8 days in a row transients have been sited in the area.