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Green shading depicts the main orca whale feeding and traveling route where most encounters happen.

The tour is the perfect blend of time on the water and miles traveled along the famed orca whale feeding corridor along San Juan Islands west coast.

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Researchers now classify those killer whales into three groups: «resident» orcas that feed exclusively on fish, «transient» orcas that usually eat marine mammals, and «offshore» orcas that are so mysterious no one knows what they eat.

Some of the 200 Northern resident Orca Whales frequent these waters feeding on salmon and herring.

Depending on the season, you may encounter grey whales feeding around kelp beds, humpback whales flashing their tails as they dive to feed, orca whales following the migrating salmon, or porpoises playfully gliding alongside the boat.

You will have a chance to see Grey, Orca and Humpback Whales, seals and sea lions and small fish feeding close to shore.

The North Island Kayak Four Day Orcas and the Humpbacks Sea Kayaking Adventure concentrates on the areas known to be the primary summer range of Northern Resident Orca (killer whale) population and the summer feeding grounds of an ever increasing number of Humpback Whales.

Other whale species such as humpbacks, blue, orca and fin whales are less common, but can occasionally be seen during the summer when they come to the channel to feed.

These are known to be the summer feeding grounds of the Northern Resident Orcas, or killer whales and surround the protected Robson Bight Ecological Reserve.

Abundant whales (Orca, Minke, Humpback) have been seen regularly as they feed in Johnstone Strait and nearby Robson Bite.

The protected waters provide an ideal location for our BC whale watching tours to view and listen to orcas as well as other marine mammals and birds as they feed, socialize and raise their young.

Despite the killer whales» pattern of more widely ranging hunts in late summer, our one day kayaking tours operate exclusively along the west side of San Juan Island as this remains the primary feeding area and offers us the best statistical chance of finding orca whales in any month.

Kayak with orcas in Johnstone Strait, the BEST place in the world to observe killer whales as they feed on salmon off northern Vancouver Island.

This year's salmon productivity has led to lots of well - fed wildlife and a record - setting orca whale watching kayak season in the San Juans near Seattle, Washington.

There were an estimated 31 fish eating orca working the tidal currents, and mixed in with them were humpback whales who were also feeding!

Humpback whales, 260 Resident and even more Transient Orcas all migrate the channel, feeding on the abundant marine life found between its rocky shores.

But the best way to see orca whales is to hire a boat to visit the resident whale pods who feed along Haro Strait near San Juan Island.