May 24, 2019
May has been a month full of wildlife variety! The gray whales have continued to stay in our area a bit longer than usual, and we are seeing a bunch of new gray whales in the Salish Sea this year too. Killer whales, especially the transient variety, continue to come...
May 23, 2019
We’ve enjoyed spending time recently with Humpback BCX1210 ‘Slate’ this spring. This year Slate has returned to the Salish Sea with a calf. Here, PSE crew member Francoise Marmillion captured a video of Slate and her calf just south of Java Rock on...
May 23, 2019
Passengers recently witnessed a vivid demonstration of Bigg’s orcas role as an apex predator! Puget Sound Express naturalist Justine Buckmaster captured photos of the T65A family hunting a harbor porpoise in Puget Sound. They went from traveling peacefully to...
May 23, 2019
As spring gives way to summer, crew and passengers are reveling in the abundance of whales and wildlife we are seeing in the Salish Sea. An illustration: on our May 18th whale watching cruise aboard Glacier Spirit, volunteer naturalist Jill Hein reports: “From...
Dec 9, 2018
December certainly started out with a bang for us this year. We’ve had a great variety of whales to watch so far. J and K pod have visited us in Puget Sound, as they often do in the fall and winter. They are here hunting Chum salmon which are the last species of...
Dec 9, 2018
Puget Sound Express had a fantastic experience with a superpod of transient killer whales on November 24 2018 near the border of Canada. Multiple families of these “marine mammal eating” orcas were traveling together including the T35A pod, T38A pod, T49A...
