Mining for the Wanderers

Yesterday on the Sea Lion captain Pete, naturalist Megan and I went Northwest to the other side of Saturna Island, and later that night around Coal island. We went as fast as we could-transients were out there! There was a large group-larger than I had seen before with transients. It was only my third time seeing them, so it was even more special.

They were fantastic. Early in the day there was tail lobs and breaches. Later on they were resting-coming up in unison, and going back down together. It was great! A few males were mixed in with several females, and there was a youngster in there too! It took a while to get there, but it made it even better when we did see them.

The sunset made the sky look like it was lit on fire, and in the distance we saw lightning. What an unusual day!

-Sarah, Naturalist