Plenty of Cetacean Sightings

Orca between Savary Island and Lund, Humpbacks by Campbell River, Pacific White Sided Dolphins in Bute Inlet, Dall’s Porpoise by Rendezvous Islands and Harbour Porpoises off Savary. Beautiful weather and more to come; all the better to spot those cetaceans.

9 am Orca between Lund and Savary – feeding on ?? They had no direction other than doing large donuts.

10:30 am Around 6 Orca including a couple of calves and one large male off Savary Island with their noses pointed towards Powell River.

4 pm Around 6 or so Orca going between Savary and Lund including 1 young male (sprouter) and a couple of young ones. They last popped up closer to the Iron Mines off Lund.

4:30 pm at least 6 TransientOrca were around Savary earlier and then over towards Lund by the bay between Lund and the Iron Mines then headed back towards Savary again. The little harbour seals were grouped together with heads up looking stressed.

1 pm Some Orca North of Penn Islands – no numbers or directions. Report came in third or forth hand. I could not locate them.

2:40 pm Two Humpback Whales in Discovery Passage North of Brown’s Bay. Tail slapping and breaching! Left them Easting into Kanish Bay at 4:15 pm

1:45 pm Humpback WhaleNorthbound by Deepwater Bay.

Afternoon: 300 + Pacific White Sided Dolphins in Bute Inlet – really spread out again. Lots of young ones.

On morning ferry to Earl’s Cove, there were around 8 Pacific White Sided Dolphins by Nelson Islandcruising close to shore looking like they were feeding on small fish.

Afternoon: 3 to 4 groups of 4 to 6 Dall’s Porpoise in each by North Rendezvous Island.

Around 10:30 am a couple of Harbour Porpoise were tight to the Savary Island shore right after the Orca had moved off.

 

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