SPERM WHALES ALL DAY! We were so lucky to catch up with two Sperm whales on all three trips! We also were extra lucky and witnessed a Minke whale BREACH 16 TIMES! And only a select few even saw one of the Sperm whales breach! To start our day, during the morning trip, we pushed … Read more
It was MINKE MADNESS out there! On our morning trip, we caught up with FOUR Minke whales and hundreds of Long-beaked Common dolphins! Tons of birds were surrounding the area and feeding! On our afternoon trip we caught up with ~700 Long-beaked Common dolphins off of La Jolla! To start the day, we cruised out … Read more
What FIN-tastic day on the water! We hung out with Fin whales and Common dolphins on BOTH of our trips today! The afternoon trip was one for the books! We zoomed out to close to 11-miles from shore and started to see a massive bird pile! Thousands of birds were diving in the water! Once … Read more
MINKE MADNESS aboard the Privateer! We sighted ~500 Common dolphins and 2 Minke whales on our amazing sunset trip! We left Mission bay and headed west and once we got to about 3-miles from shore, we spotted a fast-moving pod of ~100 Long-beaked Common dolphins! They were cruising up to our boat to surf our … Read more
WITH THE RIZZ! And by that I mean Risso’s dolphins! It’s been forever since we’ve seen these incredible dolphins but we got lucky with the COOLEST pod today! These Risso’s were pretty close to shore and RACING after something when we found them but very quickly started logging at the surface in a close dense … Read more
We had a Wacky Whale Wednesday with sightings of Offshore bottlenose dolphin, Long-beaked Common dolphins and a MINKE whale! We started our afternoon off by cruising out to the west and cruising the drop-off. It was a bit quiet except for a small group of 4 large male California sea lions headed out to the … Read more
We had a super fun time on the water today! We caught up with Long-beaked Common dolphins on both trips as well as Offshore bottlenose dolphin on the afternoon trip! On the afternoon trip, we spotted our first dolphin encounter about 7-miles from shore! It was nice dense group of ~40 Offshore bottlenose dolphin! They … Read more
We’ve got TONS of anchovies scattered along the dro off that lead to us finding thousands of dolphins today! Long-beaks in the morning and short- beaks in the afternoon. The long-beaks were scattered over miles and followed by equally as many birds. The Short -beaks were all concentrated together scavenging lazing but mostly getting rambunctious … Read more
We caught up with two species of dolphins today! We enjoyed the presence of ~300 Long-beaked Common dolphin! They were slowly traveling to the south along the drop-off! We were excited to sea plenty of cow/calf pairs! The calves were being brave as they approached the bow of the Privateer to bow ride! The water … Read more
It’s Totally Tubular Toothed Whale Wednesday! We had a beautiful day hanging out with both Long- and Short-beaked Common dolphins! We found them off La Jolla beyond the drop-off! The smallest pod was about ~20 and the largest pod was about ~300 individuals! We had a fun time watching them race up to our boat … Read more
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