Like all of our multi-day kayaking tours, we follow
the main orca whale travel route for the entire trip to maximize our whale watching chances.
Green shading depicts
the main orca whale feeding and traveling route where most encounters happen.
Click here to see our San Juan Islands kayak tour route maps that illustrate how closely we follow
the main orca whale watching corridor.
Not exact matches
According to a new theory of predation — published late last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)-- humans sharply reduced the
orcas»
main source of food in the 1950s with the postwar explosion of industrial
whaling.
Our first campsite is well situated on one of the
orcas main travel path as well as being in an area routinely visited by humpback
whales.
The
main reason we booked this trip was for the chance to kayak with
whales, we were not disappointed, each day we went out we were greeted with both transient and resident
Orca and numerous Humpback
whales.
However, if your
main goal is to see
orca whales we recommend the afternoon kayaking tour.