Alison Moors
The quiet ocean ERUPTED with life today. The dolphins were feeling flashy, and at one point a few hundred of them all kicked into high gear — running full‑tilt and LAUNCHING out of the water like little dopamine torpedoes. The whole boat was giggling and gasping with joy. We spent the afternoon with enormous pods … Read more
Today we booked it to the South and came across an absolutely massive feeding ground. Splintered across the area was a megapod of about 2000 short beaked common dolphins and another 500 long beaks! We followed hundreds of shearwaters out to the dolphins. To top it off there was a cotton candy sky sunset at … Read more
The second‑largest animal ON EARTH — a fin whale — spent nearly an hour cruising right beside our boat. Short dive times, just 3–4 minutes down and the same at the surface, kept it with us almost continuously. Every so often the clouds parted just right and we caught its brilliant white jaw glowing through … Read more
Today we found a long missed visitor! There was a pod of about 10-15 Risso’s Dolphins hunting near the end of our trip today. We spotted them from afar and were able to hang out with them for about 20 minutes as the charged and even breached a couple times. This was a spectacular … Read more
Today had the whole crew wiping away tears of joy — and the passengers too. Just 6 miles offshore we dropped right into an excellent feeding frenzy. Scattered long‑beaked common dolphins were feeding across more than a square mile, and they weren’t alone — three humpback whales and two fin whales were right in the … Read more
A hungry fin whale did circles feeding amongst hundreds of common dolphins today! The weather was quite interesting: a huge cloudy bank extended to the south of San Diego and sunny skies broke through the north. The feeding frenzy was right on the cloud line so every side of the boat had different and unique … Read more
We blasted up the coast with a nearly continuous escort of long‑beaked common dolphins, all dialed in on a massive bait fish buffet. How could we tell? The ocean smelled like fresh, lively fish — not funky or rotten, but that clean, ocean‑market scent that tells you the water is loaded with life. Trailing the … Read more
We took in the sights of the coastline and spotted our first pod of Long-beaked Common dolphins of about 20 or so. Then our next pod upgraded to 100 then our next one was about 300! Every new pod we encountered doubled in size! We got amazing looks at cow/calf pairs of dolphins, a wish … Read more