Island Adventures Whale Report
Follow our adventures from wherever you are! Our whale reports include detailed accounts and highlight photos from every excursion. Check out our latest tours or deep dive into our reports that date back to 2007!
"Schooner" The Remarkable Whale With a Partial Tail
On May 3rd, Island Adventures 10 AM whale watching tour came across a humpback whale near Anacortes, WA. We were shocked the first time the whale fluked to see that it had a partial tail! Island Adventures Naturalist Tyson Reed identified the humpback as CRC-19888 "Schooner", a whale that unfortunately lost its left tail fluke as the likely result of a ship strike in 2024, and who was also seen off the coast of Maui this winter by former Island Adventures Naturalist Lexi Jeffers.