Whale Whale Whale, look what we found today! We found 3 Bryde’s whales on our afternoon trip and it looks to be that there may be even more out there to find! (more on that later)
We went straight south this morning and found SO MANY dolphins and they were having ….a salacious time out there. (Check the photos) Dolphins are always putting on a show but, today we were shielding the children’s eyes 😅. For the most part these dolphins were cruising close to the kelp line as we searched for a humpback that was reported earlier in the day. It’s always nice to have a dolphin parade guiding us on our ocean adventures.
Since there was little in the way of baleen down south, we changed our tactics for the afternoon. We stayed close to the coast cruising straight north up into La Jolla, we found even more dolphins up there in tropical Caribbean looking turquoise water. Up past La Jolla, the water broke into a much deeper blue – the kind of blue you see in 11,000 feet of water in the middle of no where. With the blue water, we started seeing more kelp paddies and then… the whales! We first found a cow/calf pair of Bryde’s whales! (incredible find, this is the first cow/calf I’ve seen in 5 years of whale watching) As we followed the cow calf pair – we found ANOTHER Bryde’s whale. We knew these whales were headed closer to – SO GLAD they’ve finally arrived. Though Bryde’s whales are harder to track, they are an absolute blast to observe!
Naturalist, Alison
