J Pod
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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…
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A Close Encounter with J Pod
We were up off of San Juan Island. And we were looking for Granny, the most famous orca and it was the first year that they had not seen her. We were filming the J Pod out there, we were out with Ken Balcomb and his team of whale researchers, which are just incredible humans.…
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Swiftsure Tour: J’s and Grays – 21/3/23
Swiftsure left the dock for the Gray whale tour at 10:30. As we were pulling out of the marina, we saw members of J Pod out mid channel. We didn’t know if they were the leaders so our Captain stayed close to shore and inched our way along while we all spotted front , back…
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J Pod from Shore – 15/10/22
This morning I got a text from my neighborhood whale friend that J Pod was headed our direction (Ballard). Late out the gate (had to make my girlfriend break-y) I headed North to see them and watched them swing by Richmond Beach (near shoreline) and around the bend to Edmonds. This was a good decision-…