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15 July 2025. AM Morning Trip: We had an overcast day. July “no sky” follows “May gray” and “June gloom” for the coastal regions of Southern California. This is excellent lighting for photography, without the contrast of sun and shadow. Set your ISO on your DSLR and...
BLUE Monday! Like - the most AMAZING blue whale Monday ever! Bad day NOT to be on the ocean. This year has been slow for blues but this boat full of people was treated an extra rare sighting! We breezed by a feeding pod of long beaked common dolphins, they surfed the...
Thursday 10 July 2025 While waiting on the walkway beyond the ticket booth, many of the San Diego Whale Watch passengers-to-be saw the round stingray swim by the rip rap shoreline. Everyone saw the bright orange Garibaldi, the California State Marine Fish,...
July 9, 2025 Wednesday: Sunny skies greeted our enthusiastic guests on this mornings wildlife tour of Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Our moon phase is at full moon, meaning Spring tides, when we have a New or Full moon, the sun, moon and earth are in-line, this...
8 July 2025 AM Tuesday “There she blows!-there she blows!” This is what some of us might think when we book a whale watch. This is the famous quote from Chapter 5 of the famous Herman Melville novel “Moby Dick” the epic written in 1851, just a...
A bit of a swell greeted us as we exited the Mission Bay Channel. Captain Brian pointed out some Nearshore Bottlenose dolphins surfing the swell and foraging for wayward fish between the artificial reefs of the rip rap rocks. Mission Bay was constructed in the late...
The early bird gets the worm! Nice to see a lot of adventurous folks for the morning tour after all the festivities of the Fourth of July last night. We practiced our observation skills at the floating bait dock, where hundreds of thousands of forage fish are kept...
Happy 4th of July everyone! We are seeing RED, WHITE and BLUE skies today! We had a wonderful day spent with a Humpback and hundreds of Common dolphins! This morning we cruised out of the Mission bay jetties and right out of the gate, we spotted a big feeding frenzy...
Did you know that a dolphins echo location is SO GOOD that we still have personnel dolphins in the navy? YEAH! Us humans with all of our abilities to invent highly capable technology - STILL havent been able to invent something that can more reliably detect a bomb...
We had the sun burning through the marine layer and eventually prevailing with sunny skies on this afternoon trip. Mild temperatures in the low to mid 70’s, feels like air conditioning for those from hotter climates. At the Mission Bay Channel entrance, we had a brief...