San Diego Whale Watch
Captain Vanessa brought the M/V Inspiration out just a few hundred meters for our first wildlife sighting of the day, a haul-out of California sea lions on the end of the privately owned floating bait dock and the yellow mooring ball. We saw about a dozen great egrets and several dozen cormorants, along with pelicans, … Read more
The calm after the storm. The crew of SDWW was so happy to be out on the water today after being stuck on land for the last couple stormy days and it was beautiful out there. We had pockets of sunshine, the odd sprinkle of rain and a little swell. Our Sunday morning trip we … Read more
Spectacularly beautiful day on the water today! We headed out this afternoon and sighted a ton of birds off a few miles off the coast, near the drop. When we got there, we found THOUSANDS of dolphins, some tightly packed together – some more spread out but ALL zooming about havin a blast! When this … Read more
Captain Bryan brought the M/V Inspiration out just a few hundred meters for our first wildlife sighting of the day, a haul-out of California sea lions on the end of the privately owned floating bait dock and the yellow mooring ball. We also so our feathered friends, including cormorants, pelicans, snowy and great egrets and … Read more
It was a beautiful hot and sunny in San Diego but it definitely felt like fall offshore today. Hazy and foggy with a cool sea breeze onboard the Inspiration. That being said everything happened to “fall” into place while following sea birds towards the drop off. Pelicans and gulls with the odd phalarope and northern … Read more
We only had one trip today out to test the seas at sunset! We set out west and found a massive area of feeding – there were over a thousand long-beaked common dolphins, hundreds of pelicans, gulls and shearwaters. The table is set for the larger baleen – we’ve been seeing whales very regularly and … Read more
Our afternoon trip, which was also our sunset trip, began with good looks at herons, egrets, gulls, cormorants, pelicans and one black-crowned night heron in Quivira Basin at the floating bait dock. Our flippered friends were quite vocal, the sea lions were mostly resting with one in the water jugging—holding long flippers out of the … Read more
EVERY DAY IS HUMPDAY WHEN ITS FALL IN SAN DIEGO! We had a stunning afternoon on the water, started off cruising offshore looking for wildlife – eventually we came up on a feeding frenzie of hundreds of long-beaked common dolphins and birds. The conditions were so stunning we could see the dolphins deep in the … Read more
It’s Humpday! At Least the Pacific says so, we had a pair of humpbacks just 3 miles from shore slowly cruising south. They were at a CRAWL, moving at less than 3 miles per hour. This pair got pretty comfortable hanging out with our boat, they came up just behind us and passed down our … Read more
We had two amazing trips with hundreds of Common dolphins sighted on both trips! We also got lucky and spotted a Minke and a Humpback whale on the sunset trip! To start our day, we cruised out to the drop-off and continued north. We took in the beautiful sights of the La Jolla coastline! We … Read more