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Both species of orca whales in the San Juans apparently live throughout the world but more study is needed to confirm this.

Photo of Orca Whales in Johnstone Strait near the Robson Bight Reserve off Northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada

While we have a 98 % success rate for seeing orcas in thsi Robson Bight region, they are wild animals that roam at will and thus, we are unable to guarantee a sighting.

Devil's Peak is the highest mountain on an ocean island in the contiguous 48 states, edging out Mount Constitution on Orcas Island by a few feet.

Jumbo Squid, also called Humboldt Squid, are invading Washington's Salish Sea and their effects on orca whales is being questioned.

Your best chance of seeing orca whales on a one day kayak trip anywhere in the United States!

June finished in fantastic fashion with orca whale watching sightings in the San Juan Islands on almost every day of the month.

Resident Orcas Resident whales along Vancouver Island are split into two separate communities: Northern and Southern residents.

The latter calendar also has availability for Orcas Island and Lopez Island.

When at Orca Camp breakfast is usually served at the Beach Café around 8 a.m. and features a different menu each morning.

I've been fascinated by Orcas for as long as I can remember, so to be able to see these beauties in the wild is a dream come true for me.

Our online booking system allows you easy access to booking your tour with Orca Dreams.

My boyfriend and I spent a long weekend at Orca Dreams at the end of the summer last year.

Our whale watching tours off the West Coast of Ucluelet, British Columbia consist of viewing migrating Humpback Whales, Grey Whales, and the residential / transients Orca pods that circulate Vancouver Island, as well as a variety of other marine animals.

That morning the sky was gray, leaves on the Big Leaf Maples seem to have skipped their lovely yellow autumn color and have gone straight to brown and we were returning from Orcas Island to the city.

But with alternatives such as orca whale watching kayak tours in Washington and film documentaries available, this final argument no longer has merit.

The apex carnivore Orcinus orca, the killer whale, began preying on sea otters, reducing their numbers significantly.

Ferry Travel within the San Juan Islands — The Inter-Island Ferry & Local Flights For visitors who have already made it to one of the other ferry - served San Juan Islands, which includes Orca Island, Lopez Island, and Shaw Island, travel to Friday Harbor can be done via the inter-island Washington State Ferries or on quick commercial flights.

The phenomenon is more common in captivity, but people have also seen wild orcas with curved fins.

Learn about orcas from the guides» nature talks and the on - board library while friendly sea lions lounge on outcrops or take to the waves to get a closer look at you.

It was so amazing that I rounded out the summer with a second Orca Waters Base Camp trip!

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Much of the film's effectiveness is due to the vigor and vigilance of director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, who brings the keen eye of a documentarian (her 2013 exposé Blackfish shined a light on the plight of captive orcas at SeaWorld) to her debut in features.

This morning we sail north, passing the famed Roche Harbor on our way to view orca whales in one of their favorite gathering places.

From May to October Stubbs Island offers a variety of Vancouver Island boat tours including Whale Watching Orca tours (mid June to October), along with Marine & Wildlife Tours and Specialty Tours of the Robson Bight and Johnstone Strait areas off Vancouver Island.

The thought of watching a majestic and peaceful Gray Whale get attacked by a pod of Orcas makes my stomach churn, but it's almost like a car crash — you just can't look away.

Other species of orcas called transients pass through occasionally, but they eat mammals and are not vocal.

In addition to over 200 Northern Resident Orca who return every summer, to gorge on salmon and rub themselves on the beaches of the Robson Bight Ecological Reserve, we are visited year round by pods of Transient Killer Whales, while Humpback Whales forage our narrow straits.

Traffic school in Orcas Washington can be completed online in the comfort of your home.

They regularly contribute sighting reports to the Marine Education and Research Society (MERS) and the team also lends support to groups like Orca Lab by raising funds through their «I Saw Blackfish in the Wild» t - shirts.

Orca lives or dies by its anthropomorphization of the whale.

The whales really seem to feel like home in the Whale Capital of Iceland, as we spotted Orcas only a few days ago!

We have seen (and will never forget) witnessing 500 + Pacific whitesided dolphins voraciously feeding 300 meters from Telegraph Cove, as well as transient orca hunting marine mammals.

It is with a profound sense of sorrow and loss that we must report the death of Luna, the young male orca also known as Tsu» xiit and L98, who has been living a solitary existence in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, for the past 5 years.

Marion Cotillard plays Steph, a free - spirited Orca trainer at a Sea World type facility, who becomes a double amputee after a freak work site accident.

First we saw orcas passing through the strait this morning right from our deck.

Winter: A Parade of Gray Whales All winter, we see gray whales, with orcas showing up every so often.

Of course, this doesn't happen on all of our kayak tours, but we do have many orca encounters through the whale watching season — many of them up close and personal!

There are three honeymoon suites that are part of the package: Orcas Suite, Roche Harbor Cottage, and Friday Harbor Suite.

«We don't eat this well at home,» So said one of our recent guests after returning from a 4 - day Orca Camp kayaking with whales adventure.

«It undermines our climate change goals, and threatens our endangered resident orca population.

Whale watchers in California's Monterey Bay got a double dose of action this week when a pod of orcas came inland to feast on the carcass of a gray whale.

As you wind your way down the evergreen coast you'll spot bald eagles soaring above you, seals playing below you, and perhaps even Orca whales swimming by.

Though they can not gaurantee orca sightings (and no whale watching company worth their salt will, these animals are wild and unpredictable), they can always find something wonderful for you.

«I haven't been impressed by their knowledge and understanding of killer whale biology,» said Craig Matkin, a marine mammal biologist from Homer, Alaska, who has been studying orcas for 20 years.

Guided whale - watching cruise deep in the heart of Orca waters — through the Johnstone Strait on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island

Check out «Whale Attack», National Geographic's recreation of our 2004 Mother's Day cruise when orcas attacked a baby gray whale (warning, not for the faint at heart).

Monitor endangered Pacific Northwest killer whales by detecting orca sounds and measuring noise levels using hydrophones

Family groups (called pods) of orcas use this passage as an aquatic superhighway, speeding toward deeper waters farther offshore on their seasonal migratory odysseys.

When a barge dangerously laden with logging equipment, including a tanker truck of diesel fuel, spilled its load in the heart of the world's best known orca habitat — the Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight — last August 20th, whale lovers were outraged, environmentalists dismayed, the public alerted, and even the oil industry took note.