It was a delightfully easy day on the whale watch boat today. The resident Orcas were reasonably close. The weather looked iffy: solid overcast, but the rain came this morning, not during our chartered trip. And the sea conditions were... wonderful! I had a report that conditions were "a one foot roll"... when we got to where the whales were, it was nearly calm. Quite a change from yesterday.
An extended family group chartered the boat today; their goal: "We want to see Orcas!"
It was a pleasure to tell them that we had good reports - they were excited!
On the scene, we had some fine viewing of K-Pod...
Coming back in from the whales, we saw a bunch more wildlife: first, a Minke whale. Then, a couple Dahl's Porpoise (only the second time I've seen them this season). The Stellar Sea Lions were in fine form...
A short run from Whale Rocks, and we saw a bald eagle. VERY nice viewing today!
And the water was SO pleasant...
We fueled the boat and got her cleaned and put away. When I walked up to the office... my buddy Herb was standing there! I haven't seen Herb and Wilma since we left Texas. They were able to get a slip for tonight (not easy to come by on a holiday weekend); I walked down to the dock to catch a line for them while they moved off the breakwater dock.
When Joan got off work, we walked back to Willie's Tug (Herb and Wilma's new Ranger Tug) for a tour and some catching up...
Herb and Joan sitting on one of their cool fold-out seats in the cockpit...
A nice way to cap off the day!
2 comments:
Ummmm..... Jim, I thought I put in an order for nice weather today. I was thinking more of the sunshine, not rain. I officially proclaim you a Weather Wienie! I guess I should be happy though. A high of 65 is much better than 96!!!!!
If I had any input on the weather, I would also be buying lottery tickets. Weather Wienie? I'm OK with that. Hell, I was wearing flannel-lined pants today. It gets cold up on that flybridge!
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