San Diego Whale Watch
One afternoon trip is all for us today! Hundreds of long and short beaked common dolphins were hanging out off the drop off today. They were spread out over miles of ocean, the long-beaks just off mission bay and the shorties stretching up into La Jolla canyon. These are huge areas of nutrient upwelling, and … Read more
On our afternoon trip, we went out through the slightly bumpy Mission Bay Channel entrance and went northwest through some fog for 7-miles, traveling close to the deeper “Coronado Escarpment” or 9-Mile Bank. Out here there is more food, including the phytoplankton and zooplankton such as krill. These are fed upon higher up the food … Read more
ALL ABOARD! Our passenger guests were excited to start our afternoon trip on the M/V (motor vessel) Inspiration. We saw about a dozen California sea lions and several hundred birds, including pelicans, cormorants, great egrets, Western and Heermann’s Gulls. We saw many different vessels, including recreational and commercial fishing boats. We also saw ships of … Read more
We had a whale of a trip with sightings of a Minke whale, Humpback whale and a fun pod of ~50 Offshore bottlenose dolphins! We started our afternoon trip by cruising out west getting to the drop-off. We spotted some splashes out there that led us to a curious pod of Offshore bottlenose that were … 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. Just 2 nautical miles beyond the north and south jetties, we had a migrating … Read more
The Humpback streak continues! We have sighted Humpbacks on every trip since last Thursday!! Whoohoo! We are having a whale of a time out here! Today, on our afternoon trip, we explored out to the west and once we got to the drop-off we noticed diving birds and splashes on the horizon! We were on … Read more
As soon as we pulled away from the dock, we had some “liquid sunshine”, a bit of rain came down for just a few minutes. We had seen virga, which is what happens when rain evaporates before it hits the Earth. Then, a few sprinkles came down at the edge of a large fog bank, … Read more
When the wild GOES WILD!!!!! MAN! We had endless wildlife today once we found it! Yesterday we heard whispers of killer whales in the area, you never know what kind of ocean you’re heading out into after they come through like the great pacific cleaning crew and scare everything out of the area. Our afternoon … Read more
We had a fun and swelly day on the water! We had three awesome trips with beautiful sightings all day! During our morning trip, we cruised out and right off the bat, we encountered a fun pod of ~50 Long-beaked Common dolphins! They were headed south. We continued down south as we heard there were … Read more
WHAT A DAYYYY!!!!! You never know out here! Our morning trip got ghosted! Not a single animal in sight but MAN did our day TURN AROUND. We set out with low hopes on our afternoon trip but quickly found a rambunctious pod of bottlenose dolphins that were leaping mid-air, head butting each other and getting … Read more