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Authentic, family-friendly eco-adventures since 1982. Ask us about our guaranteed sightings policy!
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Operating in the pristine coastal environments of both Tofino and Ucluelet, Jamie’s Whaling Station has been captivating adventure seekers from around the world since 1982! Our waters boast grey and humpback whales, transient orcas, sea otters at play, seals, porpoise, sea lions and every tour offers engaging commentary by our experienced and knowledgeable crew. We also offer bear watching, tours

to Hot Springs Cove, kayaking, scenic flights, hiking, sunset cruises and beach drop-offs. We have the largest fleet in the area, including comfortable large cabin cruisers and high-speed, state-of-the-art 29’ zodiacs. We have gift shops at both locations, lots of free parking, including Motorhome/RV parking, and complimentary dog kennels too!

04/27/2025

Spend the day exploring Barkley Sound’s wild west coast landscapes on a scenic cruise from Ucluelet 🌲🛥️ We’ll journey through the breathtaking Broken Group Islands—rich with marine life and dramatic coastal views. Keep your eyes peeled for Black Bears foraging on shore, Humpback Whales surfacing, playful sea otters, seals, and soaring Bald Eagles 🐋🦅🦦

Visit the historic Broken Islands Lodge to learn about the region’s whaling past, then relax with a home-cooked lunch at a remote rainforest lodge where the ocean meets the trees 🌧️🌿

Travel in comfort aboard our heated cabin cruisers, with open decks for prime wildlife viewing and full commentary from your skipper. Nature, history, and west coast magic all in one unforgettable day 💙

04/21/2025

We get this question a lot!
So here are some tips to help you decide the best trip for you 🐋🐻🦦♨️
All our trips are available to book on our website or you can give us a call.

11/27/2024

There’s a direct relationship between the kelp population and Sea Otters.
One of the Sea Otter’s favorite meals are sea urchins, and these echinoderms feed from kelp. By keeping the urchin population low, kelp population stays at healthy levels.

🦦 We have daily departures for our Otters and Inlets tour, book through our website Jamies.com or give us a call at 250-725-3919.

09/25/2024

Throwback to a special day in August.

It started as any normal crazy summer day…

Just goes to show that out here on the west coast, it pays to have an open mind, spidey senses and a quick draw!
📸 Celine (Jamies’s Skipper/Naturalist)

09/20/2024

September = abundance! Exactly displayed on this recent bear tour. The cover picture is a mother bear with a nice quality ‘chest blaze’. We saw this individual with her 2 cubs in Cigarette Cove in Barkley Sound. 25% of Vancouver Island black bears are born with chest blazes but they usually fade later in life.

📸: Jamie’s Team

09/05/2024

August was amazing! 🖐🏽🎤⬇️

These orca pictures were taken on a tour from Ucluelet on August, 22nd.

Orcas like the Barkley Sound as there are lots of small islands that harbour seals frequent. We saw orcas 6 different days in August, and on another afternoon, our trip witnessed a prolonged hunt that ended unsuccessfully as the seals stayed hauled out on one of the George Fraser Islands until the killer whales abandoned the mission.

September… we are ready!

📸 Christoph Randler (orcas); Jamie’s Team (seals)

08/24/2024

We encountered this strikingly adorable creature with a larger raft of males on one of our Sea Otter Watching Tours from Tofino.

Sea Otters have some of the densest ‘underfur’ in the animal kingdom, measuring in at ~100,000 hairs per square centimetre!
📸 Colin Crystal Photography

08/17/2024

Lunging into the weekend with a few beautiful shots from our friend Colin Crystal. Slide 1 is a fabulous capture of a lunge feed followed by a fluke sequence. August has been rich with humpback sightings from our Ucluelet location and Tofino (when boats have been able to get offshore). Looking forward to an abundance of wildlife as we approach September!
📸Colin Crystal Photography

08/01/2024

If Wildlife Olympic Games were a thing, Vancouver Island black bears would be atop the podium in a few different events….Gold across the board in Looking Cuddly and Extreme Eating. They would also compete well in Tree Climbing, Hill Running and Rock Flipping.

August is training for fall Hyperphagia, where-in they aim to consume 20,000 calories per day. *Insert flex emoji here*

📸 (IG)

07/28/2024

Groom…eat…repeat….

How else do you think these blubberless marine mammals keep warm?! It is imperative they keep their fur clean and aerated for insulation and they have a super fast, calorically demanding metabolism that they fuel with a variety of invertebrates including clams, octopi and urchins.

Have you joined one of our Sea Otter Watching Tours from Jamie’s Tofino location?
📸 Celine (Jamie’s Skipper/Naturalist - Slide 1/2)
📸 Juan Ceballos (Slide 3-6)

07/21/2024

It’s World Ocra Month, right!?

We didn’t get to see them on World Orca Day. But we got to see them the day after on July 15th, in the Barkley Sound, on trips departing our Ucluelet location. 🙌🏼🙏

*these are throwbacks, though…Oct 30th, 2019.

📸 Gergy P (Jamie’s Skipper/Naturalist)

07/15/2024

Happy World Orca Day! Orcas are the largest dolphin in the world and they are also the most widely distributed of all the whales, dolphins and porpoises.

The most common population of orcas we see on our tours are called Transients (aka Bigg’s). They specifically prey on marine mammals and can take down a sea lion as large as 1100kgs! Orcas do not interbreed with neighbouring populations and communicate with different dialects.

📸 Celine (Jamie’s Skipper/Naturalist)

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Tofino, BC

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https://www.jamies.com/

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