Orca Whales In Front of Anacortes!
Stay tuned to the Whale Report for details on today's tour from Naturalist Kate Janes and click here to see the location of the Orca Whales from space! "The start of the day was ideal, blue skies and calm water, however the icing was to find a portion of the J pod Orca Whales swimming south down Bellingham Channel!! We met up with Slick (J16), Mike (J26), Keet (J33), Alki (J36) and little J42 as they leisurely made their way towards Washington Park! We slowly made our way south and at the southern end of Cypress Island Mike breached!! This only lead to an outburst from little J42. For the next 20 minutes this spunky one year old spyhopped, backdove and breached appearing to try to outdo her older brother! We stayed with the whales until Burrows Island when we had to start heading home! That evening we headed south down Rosario Strait towards the south end of Lopez Island! Shortly after we found ourselves on scene with whales! They were still traveling at the same leisurely pace we enjoyed early on in the day! This time the whales were quite spread out, allowing us to visit with Mike as he cruised on the outskirts! As if she wanted to draw the attention away from Mike, little J42 began her antics yet again with a series of backdives and a spyhop! At Salmon Bank the whales grouped up and began porpoising spraying huge rooster tails behind them!! We left stopping off at Castle Rock for a glimpse of a perched mature Bald Eagle, a Harbor Seal & pup hauled out on the rock and another mother & pup swam nearby!!" - Naturalist Kate Janes
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