7-1/2 month-old L123 near Salmon Bank, off south San Juan Island on Saturday evening. Photo by James Gresham, June 18, 2016

Members of L pod westbound off of Jordan River, Juan de Fuca Strait. Photo by Mark Malleson, June 19, 2016

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L103 Lapis and L123. Saturday evening near Salmon Bank. Photo by James Gresham, June 18, 2016

L84 Nyssa near Salmon Bank on Saturday evening. Photo by James Gresham, June 18, 2016

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Kasatka L82 breaches off Lime Kiln State Park. Taken from shore. Photo by Melisa Pinnow, June 18, 2016

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We had the L4s, L26s, L47s, and L72s pass Lime Kiln  so it was a pretty good number (L54s off False Bay when everyone else was at LK)
3:32 p.m. - Most passed LK offshore but they've flipped and are heading slowly south against strong flood.
3:00 p.m. - Very spread, most may hit north of Lime Kiln.
Monika Wieland

It was a pleasant surprise to have some of L-Pod come in today! Here's a breach by L82 Kasatka off Lime Kiln this afternoon. Photo by Monika Wieland, June 18, 2016

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2:24 - Orcas on Lime Kiln hydrophone. Faint and sporadic....trying to be heard over the clanking and chugging of a ship.
Kim Merriman
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11:04 p.m. - Many SRKW coming in east from Sooke!
Paul Pudwell

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- Matriarch of the southern residents, J2 Granny - Orca watching Off Point Roberts, WA, water was a little rough but orcas really active! Photo by Bob Mepham, JUne 7, 2016

L87 Onyx near Point Roberts. He travels with J pod, primarily by J2's side. Photo by Bob Mepham, June 7, 2016

12:36 p.m.  - Just helped a neighbor dock his boat at the Edmonds marina.. He said he was down by Elliott bay and saw a good size pod of Orcas -- they were mid channel.
Stu Davidson

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T046D near Victoria BC on Saturday morning. Photo by James Gresham, June 18, 2016 (ID's by Michael Colahan of Island Adventures)

T046D cartwheeling near Victoria BC on Saturday morning. Photo by James Gresham, June 18, 2016

T073A1 (breaching) with T073A near Victoria, BC Saturday morning. Photo by James Gresham, June 18, 2016

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...We headed down to Snug and left aboard "Shachi" at 1651. The whales, who turned out to be the T46's and T73A's, had taken a right at Battleship Rock and had entered the western part of Spieden Channel so we went through Mosquito Pass and got on scene about a quarter mile east of Battleship Rock at 1703...
Center for Whale Research, See CWR photos and read full report at CWR Encounter 53

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Downwind sail against the flood through Cattle Pass to meet incoming transient orcas, T46's and T73A's. We all ran the flood up the west side. (San Juan Island)  We observed the kids playing with their food, a harbor seal lifted into the air. A great kerfuffle of bait fish, gulls, and rhinoceros auklets as the orcas surprised everyone surfacing from below the bait ball. Male orcas T46E was close alongside of T73A1 all day, with frisky playful contact. T46 born estimated 1964 was in the last live capture in Puget Sound's Budd Inlet, Olympia, but was released. Thankfully instead of a life in captivity, she went on to have at least 6 offspring and is also a great-grandmother. We left the orcas north of Battleship, were watched by a Peregrine Falcon, and a fiery sunset through San Juan Channel.
Barbara Bender/David Howitt, All Aboard Sailing

T73A1 with T46E Photo by Barbara Bender, June 17, 2016

T73A2, T73A3, and T46F goofing around. Photo by Barbara Bender, June 17, 2016

Mothers T46 and T73A Photo by Barbara Bender, June 17, 2016

16-year-old male T46D. Photo by Barbara Bender, June 17, 2016

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WA State Ferries called in a report of 7 orcas, including 1 adult male, 3 adult females and 3 calves, crossing the international border at 6:40 PM. (Message a bit confusing, but based on this and earlier reports we believe this was off the N. end of San Juan Island, and the orcas were traveling north)
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Saw the transients- there were about 10 orcas that we saw. It was around 3:15-3:30 pm on Friday afternoon 6/17. We were by Lime Kiln Point Lighthouse. The whales were headed north...so amazing! AnJenette Charlson, June 17, 2016

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T101A passes by Victoria's Ogden Point breakwater on the afternoon of June 16th. Photo by Mark Malleson, June 16, 2016

- T46F, T46D and T46 - 4:50 p.m. - We were with the T46s today and they were on a steady track east towards Admiralty Inlet. They've already passed Protection Island. Photo by Renee Beitzel, June 16, 2016

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1:30 p.m. - 2 Orcas halfway down Marrowstone Island shoreline by Craven Rock currently moving south.
Rob Sanderson

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1:30 p.m. - T49C and female were last seen south of Nodule Point, pointed south at Hood Canal. (female is T091. ID made by Melisa Pinnow and again confirmed by Dave Ellifrit- FB comment by Renee Beitzel)
Christopher Hanke
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12:30 p.m. - I'm at Ft Casey and whales way out of sight well south of me, but based on WW boat, whales still southbound on Kitsap side, nearing the south end of Marrowstone. I'm headed home for now. Good luck out there!
11:52 a.m. - About to pass Ft Flagler and it appears they'll pass close to shore there. Quickly moving south.
11:45 a.m. - They are still southbound, Kitsap side, south of Port Townsend ferry lanes.
11:24 a.m. - They've turned. Now Southbound
11:00 a.m. - Two orca traveling NW out of Admiralty, just south of Pt Wilson. Mid channel. Two WW boats following.
Rachel Haight
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10:25 a.m. - Marty Crowley called in a report of an announcement on the Pt. Townsend/Coupeville ferry of orcas sighted, half way across Admiralty Inlet.  

8:55 pm -  Orcas in Grays Harbor. Pod of at least 4 orcas just south of Ocean Shores Marina Grays Harbor. Includes 1 LG male. Feeding.
Kathryn Franzen

U.S. Coast Guard flies in for a closer look at killer whale pod
FLORENCE, Ore. - Helicopter crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard Sector North Bend were making a routine trip from North Bend to Newport Saturday afternoon when they spotted a pod of killer whales hunting off the coast near Florence...Once they descended, Jones said he saw a pod of six killer whales ranging in size. The crew flew circles around the pod and witnessed them jumping and swimming around a sea lion...
See full CH 13 KVAL article with photos HERE. 

This is the evening cruise 6-8-16 with Jim and April, we followed this Humpback from North of Battleship, to Stuart Island. At one point it even looked like it was going into the Harbor at Pender. The juvenile humpback we had did have some markings that might help in any ID's. I didn't get a good tail,  but I have several of the Left side dorsal on down to the flukes and to me it looks like this humpback even has possible propeller scars?
Cher Renke
(We sent the below and several other of Cher's photos to Cascadia: "I do not think these are prop scars which tend to have a very distinctive look with multiple cuts in a pattern. The ones shown here could come from any of multiple sources including entanglement." - John Calambokidis)

Humpback underside fluke - Haro Strait Photo by Cher Renke, June 8, 2016

Photo by Cher Renke, June 8, 2016

 

Photo by Cher Renke, June 8, 2016

 

8:40 a.m. - off Long Beach, WA. Heading south from the Bolstad Approach. Saw two breaches....It's greys or humpbacks in a feeding frenzy now that I have the binocs. Sorry for the false orca alarm. Still cool though! The birds are going nuts out there. Must be some good eating.
Jon Scanlon

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Gary and I are camping off Point Wilson at Fort Worden. Tonight we were perched in our truck by the lighthouse watching for possible T's that may be heading that way. We spotted 3 distinctive blows from 3 whales: two bigger blows and one smaller. A pattern of 3-4 blows then they would dive and resurface approx 4-5 minutes later as if feeding. The blows would appear about 5-10 seconds apart in separate vicinity but close together as if traveling together. We watched them until they traveled north out of our view. The behavior reminded me of grays as we have watched grays off the Oregon Coast for 30 years. But they could have been possibly humpbacks? Never saw dorsal fins. Anyone report any sightings?? This was about 7'ish tonight.
Tammy Shelton 

A short-beaked common dolphin near Victoria on the afternoon of June 16th. Photo by Mark Malleson

Short-beaked common dolphin! Off of Victoria! The first time I've ever seen them! Very Rare! What are they doing in our "cold" waters? Photo by Capt Jim Maya, June 16, 2016

Photo by Capt Jim Maya, June 16, 2016

 

1:30  p.m. - Half dozen Harbor porpoise 200 yards from shore north Edmonds.
Alisa Lemire Brooks

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6:35 a.m. - Harbor Porpoise off Kingston ferry dock area
Tony Woelkes, WSF