Humpback Breaching

Saturday, May 27 - Just out of Neah Bay this morning, a quiet gray swell at the end of the ebb tide. We are both in the cockpit, lazily getting our bearings in the Strait, when a humpback breaches about fifty yards from us. Really breaches - fully out of the water, revealing all his (or her) barnacles. A first for us, and also the first time we have seen a humpback this far south.