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Transient Orcas will often hunt in very shallow water along shore lines.  They are hoping to discover a Harbour Seal sleeping under a rock.  Once they do find a seal…

Heading west from Victoria to the east end of Juan de Fuca Strait we encountered L-pod the largest of the Resident Orca pods.  We were fortunate enough to see this…

What an incredible day!  With brilliant sunshine and on a glass flat sea we were able to find several families of the Transient Orcas that were approaching Race Rocks at…

What does a retired Marine Biologist turned Whale Watcher do on his day off?  Jim Cosgrove, our senior Biologist, goes whale watching!  Today he hopped a ride on Marauder IV…

Today we found Transient Killer Whales. They led us out to Race Rocks where there is a large congregation of seals and sea lions.  Among the Harbour Seals, Elephant Seals…

Sometimes nature is not pretty to watch.  Although the Orcas are beautiful we sometimes forget that transient Orcas need to kill other marine mammals for their food.  This morning we…

SpringTide and many of the other whale watching companies are proud to support scientific research about the animals we love to watch.  Because the Southern Resident Killer Whales are listed…

Our 10 a.m. trip brought us in contact with all the 39 members of L-pod - one of our 3 resident Orca families.  A lot of activity observed with one…

Our afternoon trip took us back out to where we had seen Minke Whales in the morning.  Just like our morning tour, the ocean was glassy flat and we could…

L72 nicknamed RACER is easily identified by the reversed C mark on her saddle patch (the grey area behind her dorsal fin). Born in 1986 RACER is the mother of…