Category: Currents

his mother orca, known as J-35, has been balancing the body of its dead calf on its nose for seven days as of Monday. The calf died shortly after it was born on Tuesday off the...

his story of a crazed seal has been all over the news here in the Broughton Archipelago. We are somewhat late in posting it because we haven’t had cell or WiFi for some time,...

hat’s turning local waters an amazing milky turquoise colour that you would expect to see in the tropics? It’s a question the Marine Detective been asked a lot on the northwest side of Vancouver...

here are times, chatting with other cruisers, when someone says, sometimes as a confession, sometimes defiantly, that they don’t stern tie. You take a deep breath, or you don’t, depending on your nautical politics,...

[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”wlLuSkMtSH8″ width=”854″ height=”480″ anchor=”https://salishseapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/seadoc1.jpg”] he SeaDoc Society, based in Eastsound on Orcas Island, has launched an Idiegogo campaign to bring the beauty and wonder of the Salish Sea to 5th and 6th graders...

Our new Salish Sea Pilot cruising guides, Premium Edition 2.0, have been retooled to feel a lot more like apps, and released just in time for the boat show season with boat show prices.

anta and his trusty sleighboat, which was of course pulled by mermaid reindeer, scouted all the Salish Sea marinas yesterday, making sure he could fit down the chimneys. Some of them were a tight...

Grays Harbor County judge has sentenced a commercial crab fisherman to 90 days of electronic home monitoring and fined him $5,000 for stealing crab pots offshore of Westport, concluding a case that began with...

[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”AHrCI9eSJGQ” width=”854″ height=”480″ anchor=”https://salishseapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cargo-timlapse.jpg”] nterprising sailor aboard a cargo ship compresses a 30-day voyage from the Red Sea to Singapore and Hong Kong, a total of 80,000 frames, down to 10 minutes. Enchanting...

he City of Victoria is looking at transforming a waterfront parking lot into a signature feature along its famous Inner Harbour,  CBC News reports. Planners for the city are currently holding public consultations around...