Humpback Whale

On May 11th we celebrated Mother’s Day with some special guests! In the morning we had a wonderful encounter with a female Humpback known as BCX1057 ‘Divot’ 🙂 We encountered Divot near Middle Bank heading towards San Juan Island. In the afternoon we first encountered two Humpbacks east of Race. The Humpback were ID as…

On May 10th we encountered a young Humpback Whale in Becher Bay doing some foraging. This is the same Humpback we encountered off Victoria on April 26th! We also stopped off at Race Rocks and saw lots of Sea Lions and Seals. A Sea Otter also swam by our boat in the main channel and…

On the morning of May 7th, we were lucky enough to encounter a Humpback off Victoria water front! This was our second encounter of the season with a Humpback Whale.  These gentle giants are begining  to return to their feeding grounds from their winter breeding/birthing grounds of Hawaii or Mexico. We also visited Race Rocks…

Lunge feeding Humpback   Here are a couple of images from our 1st encounter of the season with a Humpback Whale on April 26th😍 This young Humpback was lunge feeding on Krill when we encountered the whale just south of Victoria🥰 You can see more images and even a video from this encounter at our…

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