April 7, 2024

April 7, 2024

SUNDAY FINDAY! We found a massive fin whale today hanging out around the drop-off! We hung out with this fin whale for multiple breath cycles. It came up right next to our boat for its final dive. We also found a pod of ~60 long-beaked common dolphins. We had an...

April 6, 2024

April 6, 2024

Fin whales are in San Diego! We hung out with a Fin whale on each tour we had today! We started our day with a Fin whale on the morning trip! It was hanging out on the drop-off! We had pretty good looks considering it was a bit bumpy on the trip! We finished the day...

April 4, 2024

Swelly whaley waves out there today! The ocean was a bit bumpy today. However, we still managed to find some SEAtaceans despite having unfavorable conditions. We travelled as far south as we could, we were 1.9 miles away from Mexico at our furthest point.We found a...

April 3, 2024

April 3, 2024

Happy HUMPday dolphriends!Today on our afternoon trip, we encountered a Humpback whale located about 7 miles offshore. It mugged us and even got so close to the boat that we could smell its stinky breath and feel the mist from its spout!! The humpback whale was tail...

April 1, 2024

April 1, 2024

We had one trip today and some rare sightings! We started the trip off with some inshore bottlenose dolphins at the jetties, then a few miles out we encountered a green sea turtle resting in some kelp! A sea turtle sighting is always rare for us. We then reached the...

March 29, 2024

March 29, 2024

Happy Friday everyone! We found some dolphriends and California sea lions this morning. We saw mostly scattered pods of ~150 long-beaked common dolphins. We also saw a small feeding frenzy of California brown pelicans, Elegant terns, California sea lions and LB common...

March 28, 2024

March 28, 2024

On today’s morning trip, we saw two pods of long-beaked common dolphins. The first pod consisted of ~200 LB common dolphins and the second pod consisted of ~100 long-beaked common dolphins. We also saw a Bryde’s whale today! It was a bit rare for us to see this...

March 27, 2024

March 27, 2024

The Common dolphins were out in full force today! Everywhere we went there were dolphins spotted! Only a mile from shore, we spotted a small pod of Long-beaked Common dolphins feeding under diving birds! We continued on and found a Megapod of Common dolphins traveling...

March 26, 2024

March 26, 2024

Today’s ocean program consisted of a sneaky Minke whale, a Mola-mola and ~150 Short-beaked common dolphins. During the afternoon trip, we sighted a pod of ~150 short-beaked common dolphins located past the drop-off. For our sunset trip, we encountered scattered pods...