Could today have been anymore beautiful?
We were graced with sparkly clear seas and sunny skies and 3 kinds of cetaceans!
The Ohana made her way out to the northwest and caught up with the most graceful pod ~40 bottlenose dolphins. They surfed along side and showed us some acrobatic leaps! We changed direction as we crossed the drop off to the south and was surprised by a very sneaky fin whale. Despite being known for making spouts 30ft in the air, this whale was making more discrete spout. That being said we still got some really good looks.
The fun didn’t stop there as we heading back to sunny San Diego, ~100 long beaked common dolphins swimming in a tight knit pod joined the Ohana bow riding and surfing!
All and all a great day on the water and more spots available on our sunset whale watch today!
Rainblows, a mega pod and a gorgeous sunset sums up our sunset whale watch! We cruised out to the west and only a few miles from shore, we caught up with a huge pod of ~400 Long-beaked Common dolphin accompanied by a juvenile Humpback whale! We got really good looks at the Humpy as it popped next to us a few times. We could hear its powerful exhalation and were even lucky enough to see a gorgeous rain blow (a rainbow in the spout)! We got to see its tail flukes almost every time! After spending a nice amount of time with them, we left them behind and headed west toward deeper water. We spotted a breaching Mola mola and enjoyed the smooth seas. On our way in we spotted the same pod of dolphins however they recruited some friends because we cruised through about 2-miles of dolphins totaling over 1000! It was so beautiful to see them jumping out of the water with the sun shining on their backs!
Naturalist,
Ruth & Vanessa
