We began our morning trip with great looks at our feathered and flippered friends just behind our slip in Quivira Basin at the baitfish floating dock. California sea lions were resting from their feeding forays, and the gulls, cormorants, pelicans, egrets and herons...
Greg McCormack
June 3, 2025
Our fearless guests showed up despite a heavy mist, a gray morning with persistent drizzle. But the “June gloom did not deter our intrepid whale watchers. We got some looks at a fishing vessel offloading thousands of anchovies—bait fish—at the floating bait dock in...
June 2, 2025
We had an amazing morning trip with a Fin whale, a big pod of 200 Long-beaked Common dolphins and ~30 Offshore Bottlenose dolphins! We left Mission bay and cruised out toward the SW. Along the way we sighted a couple purple-striped jellies! We reached the drop-off and...
May 27, 2025
A lovely day after the Memorial Day holiday weekend. On both trips, we spotted thousands of seabirds flying in an excited manner, indicating an “all you can eat ocean buffet” of schooling fish, in multiple “bait balls” just beyond the Mission Bay Channel entrance....