For my Big Birthday, the Admiral and I boarded the train up to Vancouver for a dose of city life. We ran a marathon, ate, drank, and hiked around town for a few days. What a beautiful city. Here’s a typical scene.

To flush or not to flush, that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe clogs and blockages of outrageous plumbing,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To fold: to wipe;No more; and by a wipe to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh…

Saw the T90 pod today for the first time this year. Warm, smooth sea. A taste of summer.

We saw a humpback earlier in the trip off Galiano Island. Then my crew spotted the T36As and T99B off Patos Island Light on our way back to Anacortes. We were one of the fewvboats to find orcas today in the Salish Sea. And that view of Mt. Baker never gets old.

I bike to work and drive boats for a living. I rarely drive my car, but when I do it looks like this.

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.