Chilkat

 Chilkat is another boat that I drive. It is a little bigger than  the Alaskan - it seats 18. She is pretty new - 2018 I think. Most catamaran boats in St Thomas have a cat somewhere in the name. Chilkat is not a catamaran but named after the Chilkat mountain range or maybe they named the mountain range after the boat!

We had an epic day today - we saw a pod of orca's and a calf. It's really nice to see the calf because they play a lot. We also got to see an adult lunge feed. That is when their food is close to the surface and they do a mini breach with their mouth open.

A pod of killer whales swimming straight towards the boat!

Like a good boater the pod of killer whales followed the rules of the road and took my stern and continued on their way.

I'm pretty sure these were resident orcas. We can't really tell the difference between the different orcas. The reason I think they were resident is because we still saw sea lions. There are three types of Orcas: Residents eat fish, Transients eat marine mammals, and Offshore eat sharks. Since we still had lots of marine mammals in the area I think these were fish eaters.