Oh baby! What a special day out on the Pacific ALREADY and we’re not even done! We sat out on our first trip of the day and immediately found a cow calf pair of gray whales. They were cruising slowly northbound very close to shore in only 60 feet of water. Baby can’t keep up well with mom quite yet so we would see baby come up for breaths almost twice as often as mom was coming up for breaths, baby was just a tiny little bean in comparison to the nearly 50 foot length of mom. We were able to hang out with these whales for a long time because we found them so early in our trip. We got good looks on both sides with some incredible views, it’s not every day you see a mom and baby whale in the foreground with the city skyline in the background. These whales were so comfortably clinging to the coastline that we got to enjoy this for a long while. We decided after a bit to let these whales continue on their migration, but very quickly found another large southbound gray whale, we’re not quite sure what it was doing going south at this time of year but hopefully it turns around and goes back north soon. We found multiple pods of common dolphins eventually finding ourselves lost in a pod of a few hundred common dolphins feeding happily on a bait ball. The dolphins were ready to play! They were glued to our boat hanging out in our bow and in our wake, evoking squeaks and squeals of laughter, especially from all the children we had on board today.
Another magical day on the Pacific, you really should get out here. It’s been amazing!
What did the Humpback whale say to its crush? – You make my heart BREACH every time I sea you! But on a more serious note…oh my fluking goodness, our sunset trip was amazing! We saw a MEGAPOD of long-beaked common dolphins with thousands of elegant terns squaking around and diving! A megapod is when there are more than ~1000 dolphriends located in a general area! The long-beaks were stampeding, leaping out of the water and surfing alongside the Privateer! Then, we spotted a spout from a juvenile humpback whale! It popped up right next to our starboard bow! We hung out with the humpback for several breath cycles, it was going down for ~4 minute dives. Then, out of nowhere…the juvenile humpback whale BREACH TWO TIMES IN A ROW!! It even gave us a little twirl in the air! It was so cool to sea ❤ We can’t wait for more ocean fun tomorrow, please join us soon!
Naturalist,
Alison & Melissa
