marine wildlife

Happy Thanksgiving🍁 We are grateful for so much including our guests and the incredible marine life we encounter🥰🐋🐬 Please note our office will be closed today to give our staff the chance to spend Thanksgiving with their friends and family. We reopen tomorrow. Thank you for your understanding.

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  On June 6th we witnessed an Orca T-party as 11 Bigg’s Killer Whale were hanging out together 🙂 We go to see some acrobatic and playful interaction between the Orcas ID’d as the T49B’s and T137’s. We also encountered a number of Humpback’s near the Romeo buoy. You can see more images from this…

Happy #WorldOceansDay We believe every day is a day to celebrate and protect the worlds oceans but today that is especially important on World Oceans Day If you would like to learn how you can play a part in protecting our oceans, visit our website at Research & Conservation

On May 20th 2025, we had a lovely encounter with 2 Grey Whales west of Sheringham Lighthouse. The 2 Grey Whales were probably heading north to their summer feeding grounds north of Alaska! In the afternoon we encountered two Humpback Whales east of Sheringham and one of them breached twice and cartwheeled whilst we were…

Here are a couple of  images from our encounter on May 19th 2025, with T65A5 and a Humpback😍 T65A5 is a young male and was 1st spotted near William Head heading towards Victoria. The Humpback was spotted a little NE of William Head and tail lobbed not long after we arrived on scene🐋 We also…

On May 16th 2025, we encountered Orcas, identified as the T46A’s! In the morning we caught up with the T46A’s near Race Rocks hunting in the tidal rip. They were also being very playful as the images show. In the afternoon we had to travel a little further but caught up with the T46A’s west…

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…