FOUR different species of dolphin on ONE trip today!Straight out of the jetties, we saw our local coastal bottlenose. Shortly after we headed west - we encountered a feeding pod of long beaked common dolphins flashing those white bellies - hunting baitfish. Further...
August 11, 2024
Sunday, August 11, 2024 We had a whale of a time on the Privateer this afternoon! Ocean conditions were perfect with sunny skies and warm weather! We headed out west past the drop-off and encountered several pods of common dolphins throughout the trip. Our first pod...
August 10, 2024
Why did the dolphin bring a microphone to the party? - Because it wanted to make a splash with its porpoise-ful singing!!We saw so many hundreds and hundreds of dolphins today. Most likely over a 1000 dolphins were sighted throughout the day between the morning and...
Bring on the Weekend
The dolphin party continues! The saw both long and short beaked common dolphins today. Straight out of the jetties we encountered a pod of long beaked common dolphin, about 50 of them all feeding on baitfish. Continuing west, we were able to locate a pod of nearly 500...
August 8, 2024
What is a dolphin’s favourite TV show? - Whale of fortune!On today’s morning trip, we were fortunate enough to find three different species of toothed whales within the order Cetacea! They are part of the Delphinidae family! We found offshore bottlenose dolphins and...
August 7, 2024
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 We hung out with some fun and energetic Common dolphins today! On our morning trip, we set out to the north, hugged the coast and caught up with a pod of ~100 Long-beaked Common dolphin! They were cruising to the north along with us. We left...
August 6, 2024
We didn’t even have to enter the ocean to find wildlife today! We found a pod of ~50 common dolphins before we even left the jetties. It was a feeding frenzie! We got to observe a unique hunting behavior - the dolphins were swimming upside down to trap fish between...
August 5,2024
Monday, August 5, 2024 Shorty so fly, shorty is a ten, shorty likes to hang out in the Pacific Ocean!On today’s morning and afternoon trip, we found short-beaked common dolphins and offshore bottlenose dolphins! For our morning trip, we went straight out west. We were...
August 04, 24
It’s a good thing the dolphins out there put on such a good show because today was absolutely packed with dolphins!Our morning trip got a special encounter with the crew favorite, Risso’s dolphins! This was a smaller pod of about 15 but they were so mellow and just...
August 3, 2024
We had two awesome trips with such amazing people on the boat! Everyone had a great time enjoying the sights, both wildlife and views! We set out to the SW on both trips. During the morning trip, we caught up with a fun pod of ~50 Short-beaked Common dolphins racing...