Alison Moors
Today the dolphins could just not let us go! Every direction we went we ran into another pod of common dolphins. Once we left they pursued us, leaping and slapping in our wake. Best Fishes, -Naturalist Madi
The Inspiration this afternoon had an extremely rare encounter with a blue whale and her baby! This cow-calf pair was hanging out at the surface with us as they hovered over what we believe was a krill rich area. They did a few laps over the feeding grounds and had dive intervals that, while sporadic, … Read more
The blubber nuggets were out in force today — and by that I mean an absolute army of babies showing off in every direction. We started with a pod of bottlenose, each calf popping up with their eyes WIDE open, like they knew exactly how excited we were to see those tiny faces. All throughout … Read more
Beautiful Morning for our private charter with the calmest seas we’ve had in days and an abundance of sunshine. This glorious weather made visibility excellent especially with no white caps or wind waves. We also had an abundance of long beaked common dolphins hanging out around 3 miles from shore on the nearly glassy seas! … Read more
Monday evening we headed southwest out to the drop-off to where the bird were heading. They lead us to the splashiest, densest pod of ~400 short-beaked common dolphins! Riding our bow, tail walking, leaping 15 ft in the air, doing what short-beaks do best. We headed further west, in a depth of 2000 ft of … Read more
Blue seas and skies graced our Monday afternoon trip and we covered a whole lot of water today. Skirting out to the drop-off and head almost as far north as our range. We found one of the biggest bird piles I’ve seen in a long time! With massive bait balls of tiny fish leaping out … Read more
Very quiet out on the pacific rounding out the weekend. The swell was active and plentiful but wildlife was scattered. Beyond the drop-off we had about ~100 shy short beaked common dolphins heading south. Around the 3 mile line a pod of ~30 long beaked common dolphins were feeding with bunch of squeaky terns. We … Read more
It was a dolphin party this morning! We had three different species on our tour. We kicked things off with a few scattered long‑beaked common dolphins hunting fish, then rolled right into about 200 sky‑born short‑beaked common dolphins launching out of the water like fireworks. To top it all off, an awesome pod of bottlenose … Read more
Straight away before we had a chance to leave the bay we were enchanted by this duo snuggling on the end of the bait barge in a perfect ying yang position. We knew house cats enjoyed this style of comfort but turns out baby California sea lions are the same! A beautiful pod of short-beaked … Read more