Happy Father’s Day! We had an awesome time hanging out with a couple of Stinky Minkes and hundreds of dolphins! We started our trip this morning by shooting out to the west toward deeper water. We passed the drop-off and a couple miles beyond it, we spotted a friendly...
June 14, 2025
Minke mayhem again! Our luck continues with the most unsuspected whale, usually elusive and difficult to track down ( we like to refer to them as the feral cats of the baleen world), we’ve now had multiple EPIC trips with a friendly Minke whale! (You know that feeling...
Thursday, June 12, 2025
After sounding the horn, Captain Michael departed our slip with a bit of boat traffic behind us, but soon we were observing our feathered and flippered friends at the floating bait pier. Herons, egrets, cormorants, pelicans, the ubiquitous gulls and some gregarious,...
June 11, 2025
Our afternoon trip began with a look at a few California sea lions playing a game of “King of the Buoy” just behind our slip at the floating bait dock. We also saw hundreds of seabirds and wading birds. Snowy egrets, Great Egrets, Great Blue herons, CA and Western...
June 30, 2024
The last day of June gloom heading into July fry! The whales are abundant and the sunshine is getting there too!We started our morning off with a few blue whales just off the drop off in La Jolla. Not sure what’s up with these blues lately but they’re being awfully...
May 28, 2024
We had an awesome day with sightings of Blue whales, Fin whales, Common and Bottlenose dolphins! During our morning trip, we set out to the west and traveled about 11-miles from shore! At least 5 Blue whales and 1 Fin whale were...
March 1, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024 Cheers to the start of an epic weekend on the Privateer! For our afternoon trip, we found a pod of ~100 long-beaked common dolphins about 2 miles from shore. We went a little further northwest and found a spread out pod of ~50 short-beaked common...