Fish-eating orcas

Glassy seas with the lightest of rains.  Occasional oyster catchers squeel and seagulls cry to punctuate this otherwise dead-calm suspension in space.  Grey skies aren’t dark enough to occlude flickers of light on the water or dull the green from the cedars on shore.  The only real movement on the water is the kayak roughing the water enough to send ribbons streaming from bow and stern like a gown as she glides across the Salish. 

These are the conditions of early...

[Sarah M – 06/13/2018 – M/V Seahawk – 12:00pm]

Captain Gabe and I took passengers aboard the M/V Seahawk on a whirlwind adventure North into the Canadian Gulf Islands on the search for killer whales. Captain Gabe steered the boat out of the North entrance of Roche Harbor and we turned left.

We had a lovely cruise up the shoreline of Stuart Island to Turn Point lighthouse towards Swanson Channel. The water movement we caught glimpses of was spectacular. There was so...