Everett
With squalls coming and going through the area and bits of sunshine sprinkling through the clouds occasionally, we headed out into the Possession sound for our first Everett trip of the season. As we made our way down Jetty Island, Captain Scott found us a few juvenile bald eagles to check out before we continued with our adventure. We pushed out towards Hat/Gedney island and Captain Scott found us our first two gray whales of the season. They were two of our more popular sounders #49 Patch and #56 Little Patch. As we observed the whales off the south side of the island we found they were mostly milling or kind of relaxing in the area. We got some amazing views and were able to spend a decent amount of time with these two well known whales of course everyone wanted to see the tail/flukes. After a great show we decided to press on to see what else was in our area but before we did #56 gave us a nice wave goodbye with his tail/flukes. We headed north from there to port Susan and found a couple adult bald eagles on the southeast end of Camano island. We got some great looks as they were perched in some of the lower trees on the hillside. After making our turn to the south our sharp eyed deck hand Casey Dean spotted another gray whale coming out of Port Susan. We soon joined the whale as it rounded Camano head and gave us a few fluke shots to help us with her identification. It was another Sounder, #531. Today was the first day 531 was spotted this season! This brings the confirmed number of “Sounders” back to 6 (44 Dubnuck, 49 Patch, 53 Little Patch, 56, 185, and 531). As she headed north in Saratoga Passage we waved goodbye and with one mighty dive she waved us goodbye with here massive tail flukes as well. We headed back to Everett from there, passing a few rhinoceros auklets and pigeon guillemots scoping out the waters for food. It was a fantastic day on the water and a great start to the season here in Everett!!!
– Tyson
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