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Pacific Northwest Whale WatchingWhale watching is popular April through September and usually focuses on the area around the San Juan Islands and the Canadian Gulf Islands. A number of charter boat companies run whale watching cruises and you can find such charters at various ports around Puget Sound and the coastal waters of British Columbia. In most cases it is a good idea to call ahead and make reservations in advance of the date you might want to join a whale watching cruise.Companies running whale watching cruises are listed by state and province: Sponsored Listing We provide half-day and all-day whale watching and
wildlife tours and daily passenger ferry service from Port Townsend to
Friday Harbor April through October. Since 1985 Puget Sound Express, or P.S.
Sponsored Listing Our Guarantee: We see orca whales on over 90% of our tours.
If you do not see orca whales on your tour, then your next tour is free of
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Kayak the beautiful west-side of San Juan Island with our naturalist
Related Web Sites Coastal
Research Foundation (CERF). Allison Harbour,
P.
O.
Box 124,
Port Hardy, BC V0N
2P0. Phone: 604-202-9350;
Toll-free: 1-877-223-2373;
Fax: 815-327-0183.
E-mail Northwest Center for Environmental Education, San Juan Island, WA, USA. A summer 1996 science camp, with a focus on the Orca and other marine mammals. Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. 138 West First Street, Port Angeles WA 98362. Phone: 360-457-6622. Covers 3,310-square miles of marine waters off the Olympic Peninsula coastline and provides habitat for one of the most diverse marine mammal faunas in North America and a critical link in the Pacific flyway. The sanctuary boasts a rich mix of cultures, preserved in contemporary lives of members of Quinault, Hoh, Quileute, and Makah tribes. Pacific Orca Society, British Columbia Pacific Rim Whale Festival. Box 428, Ucluelet, BC V0R 3A0. Phone: 250-726-4641, or, 250-725-3414; Fax: 250-726-4611. E-mail The
Virtual Whale Project The Whale Museum. The Whale Museum. 62 First Street North, P.O. Box 945, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA 98250. Toll-free: 1-800-946-7227. Whale
Net Whales
on the Net Whalesong - An odyssey of sight, sound, and science by Ken McCann "Whale
Watching Spoken Here"® Wildlife of the San Juan Islands. P.O. Box 3032, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. Phone: 360-378-5571.
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has provided thousands of travelers with fun-packed, fascinating whale
watching boat tours around the Olympic Peninsula and the San Juan Islands.
With twenty-four years and three generations of family experience, it's a
sure bet your whale watch trip will be a lasting memory. Our daily passenger
only ferry service between Port Townsend and Friday Harbor is a great way to
connect the Olympic Peninsula and San Juan Islands.
charge.
Cruise in comfort aboard the classic motor yacht ‘Odyssey’ with certified Naturalist guides.
Enjoy heated lounge style cabins and outside viewing decks with padded seating while viewing
orca whales, sea lions, seals, porpoise, bald eagles and a variety of sea birds in their natural habitat.
Two amazing certified Naturists will be on board to share information about the flora, fauna and Salish Sea region.
Carbon neutral business and locally owned operated by second generation islanders. Established 1994. 
