We enjoyed watching a Bryde’s whale barrel-rolling near the surface!
We had two amazing trips with baleen and toothed whales sighted on both trips! For our morning trip, we set out to the west and spotted a fun pod of Long-beaked Common dolphins traveling south. We enjoyed watching the babies leap out of the water next to mom. We set out to the west and spotted a fluke prints crossing our bow! We waited and were treated to an amazing cow/calf pair of Bryde’s whales! The calf barrel-rolled near the surface so many times we lost count. We could see the vibrant turquoise glow flash before our eyes! They put up a prominent spout so combined with the blue glow and fluke prints, they were so fun to watch! They socialized and zoomed around as they traveled to the SW. We followed them as they never went on an official dive for most of our time spent with them. We finally observed them finally go on a dive and they began to move on. We waved goodbye and wished them whale!
For the sunset trip, we spotted a big pod of ~200 Long-beaked Common dolphin! They raced to the south and we followed them with Point Loma as our background. We continued down and spotted another pod but this time it was a MEGA pod! We estimated it to be around 1500 dolphins! We pushed out to the west and spotted a 15-ft spout! It was nice and bright in the beautiful sunlight! It came up for a couple spouts, went down for 10-20min dives times! We got one brief look at the flukes once and we think it was a Humpback! The sunset was gorgeous!
We hope to see you on the next one!
Naturalist,
Vanessa
