Hi Folks, just a quick note for now... our boats have left Channel Islands Harbor for a few months during the Summer period. This is normal for us, and we will resume activities in the Northern Channel Islands in mid-August for season 4! Our final trip for season 3 was on June 6th and we were very fortunate to see the oldest male Killer Whale in our population, Obi-Wan, and 4 others! We have a lot of great data to parse through and discussion to follow in a later post! I am g

Underwater photo taken by passenger Hongming Zheng on our March 20th trip. The ocean that day was so calm the surface reflected the orca perfectly! Plus very blue water... a rare set up in the Channel Islands!! Awesome shot Mr. Zheng. March is usually our windiest month. However, if you live in southern California you might have noticed something unusual about March 2026. It was much warmer than normal, and with that brought weather conditions that allowed us to operate Kille

Photo by Capt. Ryan from our 2/28 Quest. February is the dead of winter and there are many Killer Whales around! It's just a question of whether we can GET to them. And this past month there was challenges surrounding that. To be honest, it was a bit demoralizing for both our crew and customers Feburary 2026. As you may know, our Quests are scheduled for every week Friday through Sunday. That gave us 12 scheduled Killer Whale trips for this month. How many of those were cance