Orcas in the Near Island Channel Again!

The orcas are back again this morning - we just a report that they are near the small boat harbor breakwater as of 8:48am.

Another Great Showing by the Orcas

Orcas in Near Island Channel
Photo courtesy of Pam Foreman

Wow! They were here again today...entertaining crowds of onlookers downtown as they traveled back and forth in the Near Island Channel.  I left at about 4:00 but they were still in sight near City Dock.  There were four orcas, including the tiny new member to the pod.  

Orcas in Kodiak, March 19, 2013

Orcas in Near Island Channel  photo by Fred O'Hearn   
copyright Carpe Praedem Photography

The orcas made another visit today and entertained shoreside watchers from downtown Kodiak out to Spruce Cape and back.  Don't forget to call in your whale alerts to 486-3181.

Orcas in the Channel Again!

photo by James Brooks, courtesy of the Kodiak Daily Mirror

Orcas were spotted in the channel area earlier today (Monday, March 18, 2013).  As of 5pm, they were still moving back and forth between the north end of Near Island and Mission Beach in the Woody Island Channel.

Orcas in the Channel

The first 2013 sighting of orcas in the channel downtown was reported yesterday (February 23rd) at about noon. If we are lucky, they will stay in the area for a few days.

What a Fluke!

Jim Pfeiffenberger opened the shutter on his camera at just the right moment during Sunday's Whale Watching Walk at Narrow Cape.  Nice fluke!

Grays at Pasagshak Today

Betsy Lund sent in a report about an hour ago that there are gray whales at Pasagshak.