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We had another day full of fins! On our one trip this afternoon we encountered at least 3 and possibly 4 fin whales out on the drop off, feeding on krill. We could tell that’s what they were doing because we went over some poop and it was red and chunky! We think we...
We had a whale of an Earth Day today! On our one trip we made our way out to the northwest heading towards La Jolla. On our way we could see lots of feeding birds in the distance and pretty soon came into a few scattered pods of long-beaked common dolphins; probably...
First blue whale of the Season!The Privateer had a very exciting Sunday sunset trip! With the most pleasant calm seas we headed through a very large and widely scattered pod of long beaked common dolphins. Once we were 11 miles from Mission Bay we found a sub adult...
FIN WHALES ARE STILL TOWN!! We had an absolutely FINtastic time today on the water from start to FINish! We had three trips today with amazing sightings all day. This morning we found 2 fin whales straight out on the drop off, saw around ~100 long beaked common...
We had a Fabulous Fin whale Friday with encounters with some very curious Fin whales! During the afternoon trip, we set out toward the west and sighted 3 Fin whales! They gave us some great looks as they cruised near our boat! During our sunset trip, we started our...
We had a FIN-tacular afternoon on the water! Spring is for sure here and that is being reflected in the species we are seeing. We raced out towards the west, past the drop off and caught up with a duo of fin whales feeding on small schooling fish. We hung out with...
We had a FIN-tacular afternoon on the water! Spring is for sure here and that is being reflected in the species we are seeing. We raced out towards the west, past the drop off and caught up with a duo of fin whales feeding on small schooling fish. We hung out with...
We had a Wacky Whale Wednesday with Fin whales and dolphins sighted on both tours! We began our morning tour with a small pod of ~5-7 inshore bottlenose dolphins feeding in front of the Ocean Beach pier. We continued on and a couple miles from shore we encountered a...
Is the ocean a massive soup bowl teeming with life? We had such an action packed day today from start to FINish! During our morning trip, we encountered about ~150 long-beaked common dolphins scattered throughout the trip. We also sighted a Common Minke whale! We got...
We had a FIN-OMENAL day with sightings of 4 Fin whales and hundreds of Common dolphins seen on our single trip! We set out to the west and found a pod of ~100 Long-beaked Common dolphins feeding under diving birds. They were very boat friendly and cruised beside us in...
