28 August 2006, Orcalab reports:

Orcas rubbing on the shore bottom.

Most of the groups were back in the Strait by 3am & heading east. The A12s are presently having an energetic rub.
Helena
28 Aug 2006 06:33:16 PDT

Boat noise

After a great rub the groups may have headed off to the east. hard to say how far they will go as the tide is now ebbing. We thought they might come back but we have not heard anything for over an hour now. Before the rub, when the whales were off the Robson Bight area, we think the I31s may have come and joined the others around 5am. It was after this that the groups went down to the beaches for an hour rub which ended around 7:30am.
Helena
28 Aug 2006 09:18:18 PDT

Boat noise

Sorry, I forgot to mention who we have heard this morning from the time the majority of the whales had come in: A30s,A12s, A36s, A4s,A5s, I11s,Gs, I15s and possibly the I31s as well.
Helena
28 Aug 2006 09:20:21 PDT

Boat noise

We have been following reports alll morning about the whales coming east from Queen Charlotte Strait. Very briefly we heard the G3s and the Bs. Jim Borrowman of Stubbs Island Whale Watching also heard R clan calls. Since then the fog confounded everyone. The Gs (including the G18s) took the unusal path of rounding Donegal Head and began to go west past Mitchell Bay on the last of the ebb. They have since turned and are headed to Johnstone Strait now. But the Bs and the Rs have been lost. We have not heard anything. The tide is now in flood so we are hoping things will develop.
Helena
28 Aug 2006 14:16:18 PDT

No calls but orcas nearby

The G3s & G18s have just entered Johnstone Strait via Weynton Pass & are now heading east.
Helena
28 Aug 2006 15:02:08 PDT

No orcas present.

The G3s, G18s and G29s were almost toally silent as they made their way the entire length of the upper Johnstone Strait area. They woke up in time to go for a rub around 6:40pm. from the beaches they continued east. We heard an update from the eastern part of Johnstone Strait this evening, thanks to Nick of Painter's Lodge. Apparently, the large group (the A12s,A30s, I11s,I15s, A4s, A5s, possibly the G2s and I31s ended up near Bear Bight. This is almost as far east as the Strait goes. It may be a quiet night up here. Nothing developed from the idea that the Rs and the Bs were in town earlier.
Helena
28 Aug 2006 22:22:33 PDT