Today we left Roche Harbor headed North toward positive whale reports. We headed to Boundary Pass by way of John's Pass. In John's Pass we saw quite a few seal pups in the calm shallow waters. We entered into Boundary Pass and found the L pod resident whales traveling South West towards Turn Point. The whales were traveling at high speeds and were seen porpoising to gain speed in the water. At one point the whales were traveling at speeds of about 12 mph. We traveled with the whales to Turn Point and then waited for the trailing groups to pass by us. One of the whales in the trailing group was L92 (Crewser), my personal favorite whale! We then followed the trailing group around turn point and down towards battleship island. We left the whales around that area and decided to go check out Spiden Island for some other wildlife. On Spiden we saw some fallow deer and mouflon sheep. We also saw a bald eagle in flight near its nest. Although it started out as a rainy day this morning in the San Juans we ended up having a beautiful day out on the water. All of our guests enjoyed seeing the whales and other wildlife that we have here in the San Juans!
Naturalist Rachel
M/V Sea Hawk, San Juan Outfitters