Long day on the water yesterday. A whale watching tour followed by an afternoon/evening of inner-island ferry service. Perfect seas.

Here’s me running the Blackfish II for Outer Island Excursions the other day. My passengers love seeing a Bigg’s Killer Whale munch on a seal (as seen here). They always root for the whale. I tend to root for the seal.

It’s been a rainy, windy, and wavy week on the Salish Sea. On Sunday, we stumbled upon T49C “Nielson” in the sheltered waters of Fidalgo Bay. Fun to watch this large male Bigg’s Killer Whale hunting for seals a mere two miles away from my warm, dry living room in Anacortes.

Buzzed down from Anacortes to Everett yesterday. Seas were a little rough in the early morning. Fortunately, Neptune did me a solid by rewarding me with flat calm water and friendly tides for the long tow from Everett to Orcas Island. My tow was this fixer-upper 1976 Choy Lee trawler seen here under the Deception…

No gold, but we found a gray whale, lots of eagles, and this 5-star rainbow.

I didn’t have a whale watching tour today, so I road tripped it up to B-ham to drop off brochures at a few hotels and run a few errands in The City of Subdued Excitement. Nice day on the bay. One sailboat out there enjoying the light breeze and sunshine.

Seattle Times ran this excellent article today about a recent man overboard situation in the Puget Sound. The video is intense. Some key take aways: Kudos to the skipper, crew, and everyone involved for achieving the best possible outcome.

I’ve been playing around with a few AI apps. I like Claude. I used another one to draw this image. Naturally, I asked for a “new-age sailboat with killer whales in space.” Not bad, I guess. I would’ve preferred a monohull.

AP posted this nice footage of orcas popping a bird near shore in Seattle.