San Juan Whale Watching

Today J-Pod and K-Pod were coming down from from the Fraser River towards San Juan Island.  When they reached Turn Point, guess what J-Pod did?  Well, they turned of course and headed back up towards the Fraser.

Lucky for us, K-Pod continued south towards San Juan Island. We had a wonderful encounter with them up at the north end of the island, including a very unexpected very close pass from K26 (Lobo).

Now for the really strange part.  As we were leaving K-Pod, a friend of mine calls me from the ferry going to Anacortes to say that he has a group of whales in Rosario Strait that no one knew about.  It turns out that it is part of J-Pod (the J14’s and J16’s), more than 50 miles away from the rest of J-Pod.  This is very unusual behavior for them.