Magnificent Wildlife and Beautiful Scenery Makes our Day

Throughout the morning, damp and heavy fog drifted in then out again, being replaced at times by brilliant sunshine. There were moments when we had zero visibility, then suddenly after changing our bearing to turn a corner, we could see far down into Johnstone Strait. 

When we first departed on our tour this morning we had not received any reports of Orca sightings and so we set out to search and explore. We were delighted to see numerous Harbour Seals  making the most of a very low tide as they draped their bodies gracefully over the kelp covered rocks. 

Dall's porpoises showed up right alongside hoping to hitch a ride or simply play in our wake. They torpedoed around our vessel with such agility and finesse. 

We stopped to drift in an area where three Humpback whales had been sighted, and in doing so we witnessed all three breaking the silence as they surfaced numerous times in our vicinity and giving us a fine view of their massive fluke. 

A radio call came in letting us know that Orca's were westing out of the Robson Bight Ecological Reserve and so we set off in that direction. It did not take long for us to come across a large, tall black dorsal fin rising up from the sea. The rest of the pod were spread from one side of Johnstone Strait to the other therefore it was important for us to go slow n steady. 

By the afternoon the Orca had stopped to feed in a major tide rip where the water swirled and shifted. The sun was high in the sky and the ocean sparkled like stars in a night sky. A single Humpback foraged alongside the Orcas showing clear signs that we were amongst our local resident killer whales. 

A real treat was witnessed when a cruise ship was making its way through Blackfish Sound creating a large wake which an Orca was seen riding. How magnificent to see dolphin-like behaviour from the largest of the dolphin family. 

A magic day packed tight with the purest of wildlife and magnificent scenery.