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Happy New Year to all of our friends and guests!  It has been a fairly quiet winter so far.  Captain Jim and Mary took family and friends on a boat ride over New Years to see if there was any activity on the water.  We saw lots of seabirds such as black oyster catchers, harlequin ducks, loons, lots of common murres, lots of bald eagles, ancient murlets, white winged and surf scoters and two golden eyes. 

There were half a dozen Steller sea lions around the Plumper Islands.  We went up as far as Foster Island and cut across to the White Cliffs and through the islets searching for a humpback sighting, but to no avail.

However, while standing on our home deck on Sunday evening we heard killer whale blows and surmised it must be trasients!  This morning we had a wonderful call from Troy Bright at Orcalab who is now hearing resident orcas somewhere in the near area.  We will update you when we have more information!