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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...
The marine layer known as June Gloom continued into July, but did not deter our intrepid whale watchers seeking to voyage toward the distant horizon in search of leviathans. Our wildlife highlights included our feathered and flippered friends located just a short...
Fortunately we were only being accosted by a very friendly and curious minke whale, so no harm was done. We enjoyed a beautiful day on the water! We had three awesome trips with a bunch of wildlife seen all day. On our morning trip we cruised out to the SW and passed...
The pacific is TEAMING with life - our waters are a bit warmer than they usually are this time of year - averaging about 69°. We’ve had an abundance of bait in our waters which appears to be attracting ALL of the dolphins to our waters.Usually we’d be seeing more...
Who is responsible for the sunshine? We had one of our uncommon sunny days in what is typically our “June Gloom” season with associated marine layer making it cool and gray. Our deckhand immediately spotted a pod of Short-beaked common dolphins only 1.5-miles off of...
We began our morning trip with a sounding of our horn, as several sea kayakers were crossing our bow and blocking our way to the bait dock. Captain Brian gave us excellent views of our feathered and flippered friends. We all had the opportunity to practice our...