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...
November 29, 2024
Conditions today were MIND BLOWING we could see San Clemente Island on the Horizon today - It’s about 50 nautical miles from us here in Mission Bay. (Check the comments from a panoramic sweep of the sunset) The ocean remained glassy though most of the day, it felt as...
November 28, 2024
We’re always grateful to be out on the ocean, just a bit extra today!The ocean was lookin pretty empty but we stretched our legs as far as we could on this trip today to make the magic happen! Way outside the drop off we found a feeding frenzy of 400 long beaked...
Misty morning out on the pacific today!
We had intermittent fog throughout the day - ranging from 50 feet of visibility to 5 miles at some points. We were lucky enough to find a playful pods of both long beaked and short beaked common dolphins! They played in our wake and put on quite the aerial jump show....
November 26, 2024
It was an amazing day filled with a Northern Elephant seal, Commons and Humpies! On our afternoon tour, we set out to the 9-mile bank and spotted an Elephant seal resting at the surface! We tried to get a close look, but when we were about 300yd away, it sunk out!...
November 25, 2024
Can you clean a dolphin with all porpoise cleaner? We recommend fabuloso for our fabulous dolphriends! Today, we had our first sighting of the season of Lagenorhynchus obliquidens, also known as LAGS or Pacific-white sided dolphins! We found ~20 LAGs, just off of...
November 24, 2024
After a day of orcas we usually expect empty seas but TODAY WAS NOT THAT DAY! We had an ocean TEAMING with THOUSANDS of long beaked common dolphins and THREE humpback whales.We had plenty of time to hang out with all of the sea life today, the dolphins escorted us all...
November 23, 2024
We had a Killer time on the afternoon trip! It was ORCAmazing! We got word from our friends at Gone Whale Watching that there were Orcas in San Diego! We zoomed out to the west as fast as we could and got out to 15-miles from shore, literally the farthest we can go on...
November 22, 2024
We’re back in action! HUNDREDS of common dolphins surrounding a juvenile humpback whale this morning!We raced out past the drop of in search of anything life, it took some extra searching this morning. Thousands of seabirds were our first hint that we were on the...