November 22
12:16 - Ts in Speiden Ch. headed toward Green Pt. Capt. Jim Maya
November 22
10:22 - Whales on the West Side, San Juan Island. Most likely Ts. North of Lime Kiln.
James Mead Maya
November 21
What a lovely welcome home! We came back to Friday Harbor on the ferry yesterday after being in the UK and was greeted by
4-6 transient orcas right by Friday Harbor!
San Juan Island Whale & Wildlife Tours
November 21
4 pm - WA State Ferries just called with a report of
three orcas in San Juan Channel,
heading south off Turn Island, not far from Friday harbor.
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Transient orcas in Admiralty Inlet. Photo by Florian Graner, November 21, 2013. |
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Off Bush Point, with Mt. Ranier behind Kitsap Peninsula. Photo by Florian Graner, November 21, 2013. |
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Transients in Admiralty Inlet. Photo by Florian Graner, November 21, 2013. |
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A raked and nicked Transient orca in Admiralty Inlet. Photo by Florian Graner, November 21, 2013. |
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Transient orca T38A. Photo by Florian Graner, November 21, 2013. |
November 21
The
orcas are between Bush Pt and Marrowstone Island at 4:20 pm, slowly heading NW in the setting sun.
Susan Berta
November 21
3:13 - Just passed
Bush Point headed north at FULL SPEED
Patrick Scott
November 21
2:37 - Oops, they turned around again, now heading north again, about where they were a half hour ago, mid-channel just south of
Bush Point.
2:17 - Now they seem to be heading south, off
Foulweather Bluff!
2:10 - We saw at least
five orcas in mid-channel of Admiralty Inlet from just south of Bush Point, heading north. Back-lit blows and splashes are shining in the afternoon sun.
Howard Garrett
November 21
12:13 - At least
three Orcas now off the Eglon boat ramp.
Tom Banks
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Here's a great shot taken just off off Bainbridge Island. Photo by Ken Todd, November 21, 2013, sent in by Tami Mathisen. |
November 21
715 am - Bainbridge ferry reports
5 or so orca milling around Blakely rock...no direction as of yet.
Wayne McFarland
November 21
4 orcas on Bainbridge Island ferry run at 7:15 am just off island.
Shirley Peck Whitaker
November 21
Just spotted
2-4 orcas on the Bainbridge ferry at 7:05 am.
Laura Alexander Wittig
November 20
I was on
Magnolia bluff and saw
a dorsal fin and 2 very scared seals...I could see it in their eyes. Also saw sea lions... rolling around...I was on the beach there. I was there
1:30-3 and right in front of us, maybe 100yds out we saw a fin chasing 2 scared seals. But instead of diving (maybe was too shallow) it was just passing by at a good rate.
Brandi Weill
November 20
Around
3 - 3:15 pm I was up there too and spotted some marine mammal activity south off the bluff. Saw dorsal fins but agree, didn't seem big enough for orcas or dark enough, more gray, but they were slightly obscured by a tree. And a bunch of seagulls landed too. And yea, looked like a mad dash by some seals. And also heard a couple whoof outbreaths.
Jill Irwin
November 20
2:17 - Watching them now just above
Yeomalt. Yeehaw!
Anne Duggan Smith
November 20
2 pm - I watched some of it from
Sunset Hill Park above Shilshole. What a show! Even from across the water with so-so binoculars, it was clear they were having a hunting frenzy.
Susan Vennerholm
November 20
1:42pm - We have now moved down to
Manitou Beach... they are trending south. Still very active mid channel. Looks like a baby baby in the pod!!!
Kimberly Sylvester-Malzahn
November 20
2:13 - still off
Manitou. Foraging.
Bainbridge shore.
1:30 - they are slowly
moving south.
1:05 - Bainbridge Island: Watching the whales, confirmed as Transients (solid saddle patches, killing seals!) - she counts
about 7 of them, including 2 juveniles and a young calf, less than 1/2 mile from the Bainbridge shoreline,
between Skiff Point and Rolling Bay. They have been hunting there for the last hour, and now are moving slowing south again. They witnessed one or two kills, saw a seal flying through the air, blood and gulls. There are 20 lucky folks from Bainbridge getting a thrill today, watching this from a bluff above the whales!
Susan Marie Andersson
November 20
1:05 - Just spotted
about 5 orca 500 yards off Skiff Point, Bainbridge Island (east central part of Island). No binoculars so couldn't get a very accurate count. One younger animal breaching a number of times. I worked with Ken Balcomb for several years, so a passing knowledge of J,K & L pods, but unfortunately not close enough to ID anyone.
Sharon Nogg
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Hi Orca lovers. It is 12:40 pm. A group of about a dozen of us (people) have been treated to an amazing show for over an hour. A group of transient orcas have been foraging, successfully off Skiff Point/Rolling Bay. And they are still here. Parking scarce. Photo by Susan Marie Andersson, November 20, 2013. |
November 20
12 noon - There have been about
a dozen orcas breaching and otherwise surfacing for at least 20 minutes between
Bainbridge Island (1 mile N of Skiff Pt.)
and the tip of Magnolia.
Bill O'Neill
November 20
Lynn Batson reported them
off N. Bainbridge: 11:14 am - In rolling bay now! On the Bainbridge side moving south quickly. Lots of blows but not much else on the surface. Very tight group with a bunch of gulls hanging around. 11:24 am - now we've got some breaching and milling around happening. They might hang out here for a bit.
November 20
10:20 - Can see them north of
Indianola pier. Too far to get direction or #'s yet.
Susan Marie Andersson
November 20
Last sighting
approx 10:10, lunging then they bunched up heading south. haven't resighted the pod as of 10:25 (but i moved).
9:53 - seeing s
ome fins Kitsap side, still north of yellow mid channel buoy South of Kingston, north of Jefferson head. Swooping gulls must be lots of scraps. Trending southbound but of yet not seeing large numbers.
Alisa Lemire Brooks
November 20
9:42 - Just spotted them with binoculars from the
Kingston ferry terminal. They were south of the ferry terminal way out far from the dock.
Molly Dennin
November 20
8:55 am - John Rogstad from the WA State Ferries called to relay a report of
at least ten orcas off Apple Tree Cove, near Kingston, just north of the ferry lane, "frolicking" and having a great time, and not traveling any direction. Stay tuned, it's a beautiful day for whales.
November 20
08:39 AM - Whale news on a cold clear day. First white water, then fins, black and white body and water spouts and they seemed to stay all in the same area,
right off the Kingston ferry dock, south side.
Laura Sanderson
November 6 & 7
Christine Marshall reports that her neighbor Nancy Bixby saw
a large group of orcas off Bush Point, close to the Whidbey side, not moving north or south for long periods, on both November 6th and 7th.