Johnson Strait News Today

PORT TOWNSEND — Team We Brake For Whales reached the checkpoint at Bella Bella, British Columbia, on Sunday, ahead of Team Tres Equis in the Race to Alaska.

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick — which is based in Ketchikan — rescued an injured man off the west coast of British Columbias Vancouver Island

The Salish Sea has been alive with rare cetaceans lately. Risso’s dolphins were sighted Friday near Nanaimo in the Strait of Georgia, and last week a fin whale was spotted foraging for food near a popular beach in North Seattle.