We had a great day out there on our three trips. We encountered multiple gray whales on every trip and on our afternoon trip we had a big feeding pod of long-beaked common dolphins with a bunch of birds! -Ryan
February 11, 2023
It was a Super Swelly Saturday aboard the Privateer! We cruised out to the west this morning, and were greeted to some big swell! We pushed out and encountered a single southbound Gray whale! We observed it come up for three breath cycles. It began to snorkel, so we...
February 10, 2023
We encountered ~300 Long-beaked Common dolphins and a single Gray whale on the morning tour! The Common dolphins were cruising down to the south, but we got great looks as they came up to the boat! The Gray whale was observed down to the south, outside of Point Loma!...
Thursday, February 9, 2023
We had beautiful conditions on the ocean today once again! We encountered feeding long-beaked common dolphins with birds, a cow/calf pair of gray whales and our first northbound gray whale of the season. - Ryan
We had an awesome day full of Gray whales and Common dolphins! During the morning trip, we set out and found ~250 Long-beaked Common dolphins! They were amazing! They were all around us, as they traveled to the NE. Cow/calf pairs were sighted next to the boat! The...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
We had beautiful conditions today as we set out north along the gray whale highway. Up around La Jolla we spotted a tall spout to the north west of us beyond the horizon and went for it! It spouted four times before disappearing. Unfortunately we never saw it again......
February 5, 2023
We had a great day! We hung out with Humpback whales and Common dolphins! They were sighted up north. We also encountered Gray whales headed south! Hundreds of Common dolphins were seen near the drop-off! The sunset was amazing! See you on the next one!
February 4, 2023
Fun times aboard the Privateer! We started the day off with a single Humpback whale and ~40 Risso's dolphins! We were ecstatic to see many cow/calf pairs! They still had their fetal folds! During the afternoon trip, we caught up with a quad pod of Gray whales! On...
February 3, 2023
It was an awesome day on the water! We enjoyed three great trips with whales sighted all day! During the morning trip, we sighted two humpback whales and 300 Common dolphins. The humpback whale was the same specked whale as the one sighted yesterday! On the second...
Thursday, February 2, 2023
We had a incredible trip today! We made our way out southwest where we spotted two southbound gray whales and got great looks before continuing south. As we traveled south we spotted multiple spouts and dolphins on the horizon so we turned west where we encountered a...