Whale Watching Cruises
Watching killer Whales and Grey Whales
cruise within feet of our charter boats, is thrilling.
Canada's west coast is world famous for whale watching, with
both resident and migrating Orcas and Humpback Whales
Orca / Killer Whale Watching
Orca whales, commonly called Killer Whales
in BC waters are divided into 3 distinct groups; The
resident pods, offshore pods, and transients. These groups
strangely don't interact and maintain their own territories.
Resident Orcas tend to be extended
families with established territories, they travel in pods
of up to 20 whales. Transient Killer Whales tend to
travel in smaller pods with no predefined territory, and the
offshore Orcas are more often found in open ocean in
large groups of up to 60. All these amazing animals seem to
display different feeding habits and preferences, which may
explain some of their behaviour and territorial preference.
Grey Whale Watching Cruises
Each spring 20,000 Gray Whales migrate up
the coast to their summer feeding grounds. These huge
mammals, some up to 50 feet in length and weighing as much
as 56,000 pounds. Grey Whales actually get their food from
the sea floor sediment, and use their baleens to filter
small organisms out before swallowing. Grey whales need to
surface every three to five minutes to breath, so they are
reasonably easy to observe, even when feeding.
Humpback Whale Watching
Humpback Whales are a medium sized baleen
whale, as with most baleen whales, they use a sieve or
filter like structure in their mouths to filter their food
from the water.
Humpbacks are known to work together using
bubble nets to surround fish and heard fish and prey into
tight circles of bubbles, while other humpbacks vocalize;
which helps scare and heard small schooling fish so they can
be scooped up by the group of whales at the surface.
There are thought to be about 2000 Humpbacks
that pass through British Columbia coastal waters every
year.
Here is a video of Humpback Whales
Feeding using Bubble Nets
Whale Watching Guides
Our Whale Watching Guides and Charter boats are
some of the best on the west coast. We offer whale
watching cruises though out the summer for up to 6 people on our comfortable and warm
charter boats.
Meet our
whale watching guides
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