Swelly day on the water! We were rocking and rolling out there today!However, we were rewarded with seeing two Gray whales! We had our first encounter in Mission Bay. It seems like a juvenile gray whale got a little confused and moseyed into the bay. Then, we headed...
March 10, 2024
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? It’s already one extra hour of daylight time? Man are we stoked for these longer, warmer, summery days to keep rolling in!With more sunlight in our days, we get to spend more time out to sea and the wildlife is definitely waiting for us! We had 4...
March 9, 2024
Smooth seas, awesome visibility, and Gray whales! We had a wonderful day on both trips! We set out to the west out past the drop-off! On the morning tour, we got to the drop-off and sighted a stealthy Gray whale that was traveling north. We left it behind and...
March 8, 2024
Friday, March 8, 2024 We made some new dolphriends on our trips today! We set out to the west and found ourselves along the drop-off. On our morning trip, we sighted a pod of ~100 Short-beaked Common dolphins cruising to the south. They zoomed up to us to ride the bow...
March 5, 2024
Ohana means family and we ran into a massive pod of long-beaked common dolphins on the Ohana today! These long-beaked common dolphins live in a fission-fusion society where the size and composition of the social group change as time passes. The pod we encountered...
March 3, 2023
Do you know how much water is expelled in a whales spout? (Answer in comments, It may surprise you!) Speaking of spouts! With 15 knot winds knocking spouts down as fast as the whales were putting them up, we were able to find AN OUTRAGEOUS amount of whales out there...
March 1, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024 Cheers to the start of an epic weekend on the Privateer! For our afternoon trip, we found a pod of ~100 long-beaked common dolphins about 2 miles from shore. We went a little further northwest and found a spread out pod of ~50 short-beaked common...
February 28, 2024
Happy Humpday! We spent the afternoon today searching for our whale friends and DOLPH-riends. We headed out west and travelled northbound along the drop-off and encountered a pod ~200 short-beaked common dolphins! They were making massive splashes with their huge...
February 27, 2024
We had the most AMAZING conditions out there today! Our morning trip had glassy seas and we were thankful it did! We came across 2 very sneaky gray whales. They changed direction on us at least 3 times and changed their speed a couple times. We waved goodbye and moved...
February 26, 2024
We had the largest single group of gray whales of the season today! We traveled out about 12 miles from shore where we first came across a large pod of hundreds of long-beaked common dolphins traveling quickly to the north. Then at about 12 miles out we came across a...