Sightings & Updates
Thursday September 10, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Thursday September 10, 2020 10am: Trip cancelled due to weather 2pm: This afternoon we headed out, stopping with harbour and grey seals at Black Ledge. We quickly picked up 2 minke whales and got great looks at both. The fish were jumping at the...
Wednesday September 9, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Wednesday September 9, 2020 10am: Cancelled due to weather/fog 2pm: This afternoon we headed out expecting some fog but the fog had rolled back and we had pretty great visibility. We stopped with seals on Black Ledge then headed out offshore. We got...

Tuesday September 8, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Tuesday September 8, 2020 10am: This morning was foggy but we spent most of our trip offshore with Chevron, a humpback, who was quite active and breached for over 30 minutes. Humpbacks breach, and they do breach a lot but it's so special to see...

Monday September 7, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Monday September 7, 2020 10am: It was foggy this morning so, after a stop with harbour and grey seals at Black Ledge, we headed offshore hoping the fog was less thick out there. It was! We found a humpback, Chevron out there! We also saw harbour...

Sunday September 6, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Sunday September 6, 2020 10am: This morning we stopped with harbour and grey seals on the way offshore. We found a finback whale and Chevron, a humpback whale about 18 miles from St. Andrews. We got great looks at each, along with some harbour...

Humpback, Finback and Minke! – Saturday September 5, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Saturday September 5, 2020 10am: This morning we started with seals off Black Ledge then made our way offshore. We picked up a finback on our way towards the Wolves and then a second fin whale and a humpback on the Wolves Bank! The humpback was IDed...

Friday September 4, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Friday September 4, 2020 10am: This morning the fog was thick offshore but clear in the Islands. We started out with grey and harbour seals on Black Ledge then headed up through the islands. We found a couple minke whales and followed along with the...

Thursday September 3, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Thursday September 3, 2020 10am: We started with a very foggy morning. There were lots of grey and harbour seals, diving gannets, great shearwaters, sooty Shearwaters, razorbills, hundreds of Bonapartes gulls and arctic terns. We visited Head...

Wednesday September 2, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Wednesday September 2, 2020 10am: This morning started out with an usual sight, nature at her finest, a bald eagle consuming their breakfast...which was a dead fawn that had washed ashore at Pendleton's. We then headed out through the passage started...

Tuesday September 1, 2020
SIGHTINGS UPDATE Tuesday September 1, 2020 10am: This morning, we started our trip with harbour and gray seals off of Black Ledge. We did some searching off of Bliss Island, but didn’t pick anything up so we headed over to Head Harbour. In the passage, we spotted 2...