A Day of Dalls!

While venturing around the Turn Point area, our boat came across a group of Dall's Porpoises. Dall's porpoises are one of two species of porpoises found in the San Juan Islands. The other type of porpoise is the Harbor porpoise, which is much more elusive than the Dall's. The Dall's porpoise is often mistaken as a baby Orca. However, the Dall's porpoise is much smaller than Orcas, they are around 5 feet in length. Oftentimes Dall's porpoise will bow ride alongside boats, which we were fortunate enough to experience today. The Dall's porpoises seemed to be all over the place in the Turn Point area, and different groups of them were bow riding along our boat as we travelled through around the point. We also saw numerous Bald Eagles, a group of over 83 Harbor Seals, and a Pelagic Cormorant rookery. Although no Orcas were spotted today, we had a wonderful day of wildlife viewing.

Ashley, Naturalist