Nov 21, 2022
We have exciting news to share! The T37 pod has a brand-new calf! We had the good fortune of seeing the new calf within an hour of it being discovered during our trip on Saturday November 19. After first watching a minke whale and then a humpback whale early in our...
Jul 21, 2022
by Photographer/ Naturalist Bart Rulon We’ve seen a lot of the T77 pod traveling with the T65A pod so far this summer, and they spent several days in Hood Canal recently. The T65As are one of the few pods that regularly hunts in Hood Canal. Other pods have spent time...
Jun 30, 2022
June (Orca Awareness Month) was a great month for whale watching in the Salish Sea not only for orcas but for other species as well. We continued to have great sightings of multiple Bigg’s killer whale pods throughout the month including some days with several pods...
May 11, 2022
After a wonderful start of 2022 viewing gray whales in March and April, we have begun our primary whale watching season at our Edmonds, Port Townsend, and (new for 2022!) Port Angeles locations. Now that we have started our regular length tours we’ve been seeing...
Mar 31, 2022
Video and post by PSE photographer/naturalist Bart Rulon. The gray whales we see here in March and April, the Sounders, employ a very unique feeding strategy that is definitely productive but also very risky. Gray whales are bottom feeders, and in Puget Sound they...
Mar 6, 2022
We had a very successful opening weekend full of gray whales. In fact we likely set a PSE company record for the number of individual gray whales seen this early in the season. We managed to spot 8 of the 9 gray whales that have been confirmed in Puget Sound...