We had an EXCELLENT time out on the Pacific – THERE WAS SO MUCH BIOMASS! It feels like gray whale season has truly begun! On every single trip recently, we’ve seen multiple Whales and pods of dolphins. Today we headed out and immediately found a pair of gray whales. We found them so quickly that we had ample time to hang out and see multiple flukes! As these whales cruised down to Mexico, we spotted some dolphins off in the distance so after everyone was happy with the time we spent with the Whales we moved on playing with the playful dolphins. Our second trip was very much the same, we headed out to the southwest And passed up a pot of dolphins to make sure that we’d have time to hang out with a southbound pair of gray Whales. These gray whales were very generous with their flukes as we got to see them on almost every dive. Their heart shaped spouts were very apparent as you will see in the photographs below. The Dolphins that we saw passing by earlier, stayed close enough in the to return to later, when we found them, there were nearly 600 dolphins stretched along about a mile of ocean. It was breathtaking!
We have one more trip to go and I bet it’s going to be just as incredible. Hope to see you out here soon!
Why did the gray whale breach? Because it wanted to make a BIG SPLASH!
We caught up with 5 gray whales located around ~4.5 miles offshore!! One of the gray whales was kinda hanging out alone while the other four seemed to be traveling in a little group. All of the gray whales were traveling southbound. They were going down for ~2-3 minutes dives and synchonizing their breaths. We were hanging out with the gray whales for a good amount of time and then all of the sudden, one of the grays BREACHED THREE TIMES! It was so fun to see them all interacting with each other showing off and making exaggerated tail slaps as well. Then, we went further offshore, we followed the birds and found a massive pod of ~300 long-beaked common dolphins! It was dolphinitely a super cetacean Friday!! Please join us for some more salty fun tomorrow.
Naturalist, Alison & Melissa
