100% Gray Whale Sighting Success for 2008!
Gray Whales in sight from The Island Explorer 3! That makes our 2008 sighting record 17 out of 17! Stay tuned to the Whale Report for details from today's tour from Naturalist Jami Nagel! "We totally dodged the liquid sunshine today! We started out with our 2 sun-soaked California Sealions on the marker on the way out of the marina. As we headed toward our first Gray Whale we encountered a Bald Eagle flying low to the water. As he approached we notice he had lunch in his talons. What we first thought was a crow turned out to be a Surf Scoter on closer examination!! We had seen several rafts of Surf Scoters in the area, he must have plucked one up as he cruised by. The first Gray we encountered was just north of Everett along the mainland feeding. We headed up Saratoga Passage were we found #49, Patch. He gave us some great fluke shots. Along the way we had several rafts of Western Grebes, cormorants, pigeon guillemots, red-necked grebes and harbor seals."
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