Latest Sightings

Transient Bigg’s Orca have been seen spreading out as have their food sources such as sea lions. Although we usually have the T002Cs around the Lund and Okeover Inlet area, another family pod the T023s seem to have taken over the area for now. Others, not all individually identified and could even be a few…
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With Gray Whales, Humpbacks and even Fin Whales being seen on the west coast of Vancouver Island, our inside waters are starting to see some activity which has not been seen in many years. The Sperm Whale, first spotted in Blackfish Sound, managed to sneak down Georgia Strait and was spotted around Nanaimo, third hand…
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Transient Bigg’s were spending a lot of time hunting sea lions by Comox and Hornby Island during the herring fishery with some others on the hunt on the West Coast of Vancouver Island where the Grey Whales have made there way back into our coastal waters in numbers. Grey (or Gray) Whales most frequently travel…
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A few of the Transient Bigg’s Orca that had moved out a while ago seem to have gathered together. The family pods called, T002Cs, T086As, T077s, T101s and the lone T087 were all seen passing Powell River. With the sea lions grouped up to feed by the herring fishery on the Vancouver Island side of…
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A WOW moment to hear that a Sperm Whale in our inner waters again, and below the top of Vancouver Island! Dept. of Fisheries confirmed the sighting of this lone whale foraging in the Blackfish Sound area for about a week. The last DFO sighting recorded was in 1984. Sperm Whales are extremely deep divers…
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The Northern Resident Killer Whales of the family pod known as the A42’s have been spending a lot of time on the move between the Gibsons area along the Sunshine Coast of BC to Powell River, then back again. That’s over 100 km in a day! They even spent some time rubbing on one of…
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Transient Bigg’s and some Unidentified Orca sightings top this report. Although we believe the unidentified Killer Whales may be Bigg’s also, we could not confirm in time for this short report. Although they were closer to shore, they were difficult to see in the lumpy seas. Most Humpback Whales seem to be in other areas…
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It’s great to know that Pacific White Sided Dolphins have returned in some numbers into our inside waters. They frequently have a tendency to travel afield during the Autumn months then reappear right around this time concentrating on feeding more than play. Orca reports have included some Transient Bigg’s and A42s of the Northern Resident…
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Biggs Killer Whales have been reported hunting with two great video clip submissions included below. One of the clips has Humpback Whales fending off the Orca while a sealion or two hides behind the larger animals. Every year, we have Southern Resident pods, particularly J-Pod, show up in the northern Georgia Strait area, but have…
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There are still plenty of Humpback Whales in the upper Georgia Strait with a few larger groups of Pacific White Sided Dolphins either harassing them or cooperatively feeding. A few Orca, mostly the meat eating Transient Bigg’s transitted but suprisingly not chasing the large regrouping of Harbour Porpoise by their favourite area by Whytcliffe park…
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Orca and Humpback Whales are still prevalent in our reports. Orca seem to be transitting areas while many Humpbacks are still staying throughout the Georgia Strait. We had one day which appeared to have a mass southerly movement of Humpbacks, but their movements slowed with some returning northward or staying around the western end of…
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Numerous Humpback Whales are still foraging all over the inside waters between Vancouver Island and the mainland shores. They don’t appear to be in any hurry to depart to breeding grounds, or have we become both feeding and breeding grounds now? We heard that there were a number of them also at the entrance to…
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Many Humpback Whales have not started their long migration to southern breeding grounds. Is this because they don’t plan to breed this year, or is it because they haven’t had enough food to build their reserves? The breeding grounds do not have much in the way of food for them, so when they are at…
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The Southern Resident Orca, J-Pod and a few from L-Pod, stayed in the upper Georgia Strait to forage, then continued south past Comox. Transient Bigg’s Orca popped up in many of the channels, but aren’t favouring any specific area, as of yet. Humpback Whales are staying in the upper Georgia Strait to forage although they…
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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! It’s unusual for the Southern Resident Killer Whales to stay in the northern reaches of Georgia Strait, but they must have found some good fish to eat. Food is something they definitely have been in need of with their populations dwindling. J-Pod was the main family group with a few from possibly…
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Many Northern Resident Orca of G-Clan came down Johnstone Strait and through Discovery Passage. There were Transient Bigg’s Orca popping up in a variety of places at the same time. These species do not mix, and will, if they’re in the same channel, hug opposite shores to avoid confrontation. Reports of Orca without knowing who…
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A number of pods of Transient Orca have been sighted in our inland waters during the past week, and among them, the T101s, T137s, and T002Cs were identified. Many Humpbacks whales have been observed with a majority of them located in Sutil Channel between Cortes Island and Read Island. It appears that many of the…
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There has been an increase in the number of sightings of Transient Orca in our inland waters. One report indicated that a pod of Transient Orca were feeding, indicating that they had hunted, caught, and killed its prey whatever it may have been. Possible prey for Transients Orca include porpoise, dolphins, smaller baleen whales, seals,…
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