Southern Resident
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J Pod from the Ferry – 29/10/24
Hopped on the Edmonds ferry today when the downpours stopped and got to see endangered Southern Resident killer whales J Pod pass by! Ferry Captain announced the whales and stopped the boat! 🙂 -Janine
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A Humpback and Southern Residents – 9/8/18
It was a beautiful day out on the water and we caught up to a lone humpback right outside the Victoria Harbour. It was traveling Eastward towards Clover Point Park. At first the humpback wasn’t overly active, doing deep dives and barely lifting its tail out of the water. While we were waiting for the…
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Best Day Ever – 7/13
We went whale watching out of Friday Harbor. We were on the west side just hanging out with a hydrophone in the water, engine off and all of a sudden we hear squeals and start seeing blows. J pod comes rolling in splashing, spy hopping, and breaching. There were so many we didn’t know where to…
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A Brief Encounter with K Pod – 7/23
This is one my favourite encounters of 2023 – the brief time I got to spend with K Pod of the Southern Resident Killer Whales. They were traveling southwards down the coast about 2 miles offshore and were very spread out when we approached. There was breaching, tail lobbing, and spyhops. You could see splashes…
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A First Encounter with J60 – 26/12/23
When I woke up on the December 26 there was a JPod sighting in Kingston. So I hustled my booty to the general location where they last were seen, and was going to walk on the ferry in hopes for a better view. Thank God I missed the ferry by 1 minute because I would…