We take a day trip up to Port Townsend for a whale watching cruise with Puget Sound Express. Our ship leaves the harbor and starts searching for whales (all the whale watching cruises in the Sound communicate with each other to spot whales and help everybody have a productive trip).
We leave the harbor and head south into Puget Sound, passing through a fog bank and emerging into a sunny day on the Sound.
Leaving the harbor, through the fog
Humpback whale
Further down the Sound, we spot three pods of orcas. Orcas (also known as killer whales) generally travel in small groups of two to six animals and eat salmon and mammals, incuding harbor seals, minke whales, and gray whale calves. We follow the Orcas for a while as they cruise along the coast.
Pods of orcas
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