Our morning trip had the most incredible conditions today, it was completely glassy. We travelled 8.5 miles out of Mission Bay and came across 2 early morning humpbacks! We stuck with them for a while as they had short dive times, about 6-8 minutes. They were also...
October 14, 2023
We hung out with ~200 Shorties this evening! We cruised out to the west, and sighted many birds diving on bait balls. We passed the drop-off and noticed a huge aggregation of birds to the NW. Under them, we sighted big splashes! The short-beaked common dolphins...
October 13, 2023
It was a beautiful day on the water! We also got to hang out with a Minke whale and ~500 Short-beaked Common dolphins! We set out to the west and only 3-miles from shore, we sighted a Minke whale! It popped up all around us, keeping us on our toes. At one point, we...
October 12, 2023
Could have fooled us! We thought it was HUMPday! We were so lucky and caught up with Humpbacks and Common dolphins today! During our afternoon cruise, we set out to the west and sighted a single Humpback traveling south, around the drop-off! It surfaced for about 8...
Whaley out there!
October 11, 2023We had a bumpy ride out there today! Some morning wind kicked the waves up but that didn’t stop us from finding wildlife! We found an enormous pod of long beaked common dolphins! They were BLASTING to the north east so we had so work cut out for us to...
October 10, 2023
We hung out with a huge pod of ~400 Short-beaked Common dolphins this morning! We left the jetties and got to the drop-off and noticed down to the south some splashes. Initially, we thought there were about 200 dolphins but the more time we spent with them, we...
October 9, 2023
We made some new dolphriends today! We set out to the west and endured some bumpy but fun seas! We sighted a huge pod of ~200 Long-beaked Common dolphins at the drop-off! They were racing to the north, following the contour of the drop-off. Many of the dolphins raced...
Saturday, October 7, 2023
We had a whale of a day! We set out this morning and were surrounded by fog, even here in Mission Bay! We set out to the west, hoping we would find an open patch of clear visibility. Sure enough, we hung out with a Mola mola, and a huge pod of ~500 Short-beaked Common...
October 5, 2023
We had two incredible trips once again today and this time with a couple of humpback whales and hundreds of long-beaked common dolphins! Our afternoon trip set out the the northwest and first encountered a feeding pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins. Then up in La...
October 3, 2023
We had two incredible trips today! This afternoon we started the trip off with a Mola mola, a big pod of long-beaked common dolphins and out on the drop off we encountered 3 fin whales and a blue whale! On our sunset trip we had a flying fish, two fin whales and the...