Orca Whales, Minke Whales, and More Orca Whales!
Today was a beautiful day to spend on the Island Explorer 3, cruising the Salish Sea! Our guests saw 3 types of whales on our tour today - Transient Orca Whales, Minke Whales, and Resident Orca Whales! Stay tuned to the Whale Report for details from Naturalist Jami Nagel! "Wow, what an amazing day. We had beautiful conditions and a triple header!!! We started out of the marina with our first sightings; a mature bald eagle and 3 harbor seals hauled out just outside of the marina. We headed around the south end of Lopez where we encountered our first Minke whale. He was elusive just coming up a few times so we moved on. At Salmon bank we spotted another Minke whale and a group of 4 Transients that we later ID as the T19's. The headed into Cattle pass and then into San Juan channel where K-pod was coming down toward them. We were witness to something not scene before, we watched Transient (mammal eating) orcas (4 ind) heading quickly toward Resiendent (fish eating) orcas (19 ind. ). K-pod quickly turned around and started moving rather quickly in a Northerly direction. There were some speculations on why this was, one was that K-pod's only adult male orca Cappuccino K21 was not with the group or the second was that there was a very large group of harbor porpoise heading up the channel in the same direction as the whale and the Transients didn't care that the residents where there, they wanted those porpoise! It was an amazing sight!"-Jami Nagel, Naturalist
posted by Island Adventures Whale Report @ 5:18 PM
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