What a STUNNING night it shaped up to be! Right as we were running out of hope - thinking that we wouldn’t even be able to get to the dolphins reported a few miles away —OUT OF NO WHERE— THREE humpback whales decided to make our night absolutely unforgettable! We...
November 17, 2024
After a few days off the water due to poor weather we were SO EXCITED to get out there and see what we could find. Big Blue did not disappoint! We had some STUNNING conditions when we found a pod of long beaked common dolphins. The crystal clear water gave us some of...
November 14, 2024
I’ve been WAITING YEARS TO SEE WHAT WE SAW TODAY!We had two incredible trips today, but the sunset cruise had DOLPHINS IN BIOLUMINESCENCE! (video will be in comments)This afternoon - we got to hang out with a very large humpback whale as it made its way down to...
November 11, 2024
What did the humpback whale say to the ocean? Nothing, it just waved! Also, Happy Veteran’s day! Today, we travelled out west and then headed towards the 9-mile bank. Once we reached the 9-mile bank, the ocean erupted with wildlife! It felt like we were watching an...
November, 10 2024
I used to believe that these magical conditions during our fall months were nothing more than a myth - This year is changing that. The whales are ABUNDANT but what’s also been so incredible is the ocean conditions, the swell has been minimal, the Santa Ana’s have been...
November 9, 2024
It was a Super Cetacean Saturday! Cetaceans include whales, dolphins and porpoises! While we didn’t see any porpoises we did see a small handful of Long-beaked Common dolphins and HUGE Competition pod of EIGHT Humpback whales! We had the best time watching them come...
November 8, 2024
We had an amazing day with 2 Humpbacks, ~500 Long-beaked Common dolphins and incredible visibility! We could see out to San Clemente Island and far down south to Mexico today! The seas were flat and calm and felt like we were cruising on a lake! We set out to the west...
November 7, 2024
Sunset and whales - WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK FOR? Not much.We set to the north in hopes to encounter some action we’d heard about earlier in the day. We didn’t see a wild feeding frenzy but we did encounter tons of shearwaters and a very zig zaggy whale! This was the...
November 5, 2024
We accompanied a pair of Humpbacks down to the south along the drop-off! The pair was nice and relaxed traveling next to each other, even synchronizing their breaths! They had 7-12min dive times and lifted their flukes on almost every dive! They popped up on both...
November 2, 2024
THREE Humpbacks for the WIN! We cruised out to the west, and spotted at least 600 Long-beaked Common dolphins traveling fast to the south! They zoomed up to us and bow-rode the boat and surfed our wake! We observed some high flyers! Some breached and porpoised all...