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...
