Whale Watching Reports

Trip Highlights: Argonaut fluking 10 humpback whales meet the calf of Slits hearing the blow of humpback whales orca family swimming together and understand family bonds pink salmon jumping everywhere the landscape and scenery Additional comments: We also LOVED Marieke … Read More

Trip Highlights: The whole trip was amazing!  We saw porpoises, eagles, sea otters, humpbacks and a minke whale!  We even saw Hunter the humpback’s first appearance in 2024. Additional Comments: Bill and Marieke are both so knowledgeable, friendly, passionate, and … Read More

Trip Highlights: Marieke was so pleasant, knowledgeable and entertaining with her antidotes and commentary, it really was a highlight.  Bill did an excellent job locating orca, humpback whales and sea otters.  We appreciated the show the humpback gave with flappy … Read More

We went southeast direction, found colonies of seals, cute babies on rocks, sea otters, a few humpback whales, a Minke whale, rhinoceros auklets, gulls, and many eagles in a feeding frenzy.  And then to top it all off, a killer … Read More

Trip Highlights:  Went from Port McNeill past Telegraph Cove and saw the Biggs killer whales.  They were close to the Dall’s porpoises.  We crossed Johnstone Strait and were looking for other transients.  Went west and had humpbacks in all directions.  … Read More

Trip Highlights:  Well, we’ve had our kiwi whale watch adventures, but this ‘took the cake’, so to speak.  One word:  Perfect.  We saw several pods of orca, numerous humpbacks including a 7 minute tale slapping display – epic!  We saw … Read More

Trip Highlights:  20+ humpback whales; 3+ Pacific white-sided dolphins; 2 Dall’s porpoises; 2 Bigg’s killer whales (near Gilford Island); many sea otters!  Hundreds of sooty Shearwaters and common murres, at least one Cassin’s auklet! Additional comments:  Fantastic day.  Crew went … Read More

Trip Highlights:  We saw Guardian and her calf really close up, along with lots of other humpback whales, 16 in total.  It was cool to see all of the otters which are new to the area.  We also saw a … Read More

Trip Highlights:  An amazing trip where we saw SO many humpback whales.  At one point, we were surrounded by humpbacks!! We also heard them communicating as one humpback was annoyed – so lovely to see a mother and her calf … Read More

Trip Highlights:  The trip around Port McNeill and inner islands was magical!  The crew was so personable and really made the entire event so much fun.  It was extra special to me to learn so much about the revitalization of … Read More