I’m bringin’ humpy back! (yeah) Them other whales don’t know how to act (yeah)
We found a juvenile humpback whale on both our morning and afternoon trips today! On our morning trip, we found the humpback whale hanging out near the kelp forest off of Point Loma. It was going down for brief breath cycles, about 2-3 breaths each time it was up. We also saw a shy lift of its tail flukes towards the end! Then, we found a MASSIVE scattered pod of ~500 long-beaked common dolphins! They rode alongside our boat for a good amount of time, the long-beaks even started to stampede! It was so cool to see them travel so fast! On our afternoon trip, we headed out west and quickly encountered a spunky pod of ~100 long-beaked common dolphins. They were swimming closely next to each other, seemed like a tight knit pod. They loved surfing in our wake. Then, we heard from our other whale watching friends that the humpback whale was still in town!
This time it was hanging out around ~0.8 miles offshore just outside of Mission Bay jetty! There was a lot of boat traffic outside of the jetties, so the crew was wondering why the humpback stayed in the same general area for multiple breath cycles? It didn’t seem like it was in distress but rather just being curious! We hung out with the humpback whale for at least 4-5 breath cycles, getting really great looks all around the boat. We have some more ocean fun coming up on our sunset trip so please stay tuned!
Naturalist,
Melissa
