It was finny out there today! Our morning trip was absolutely AMAZING! We started strong with a small pod of long beaked common dolphins about 3 miles out. There were loads of babies in this group, we're thinking it may have been a nursery pod. Continuing out, we had...
May 19, 2023 Fin whale-polooza continues!
We've been having such good luck with whales lately! We headed out west to see what we could find - pretty quickly we found a pod of about 60 short beaked common dolphins! These dolphins are always so full of energy and curiosity, it's always delightful to cross paths...
May 18, 2023 Sunset Blues! ( the really big kind, not the sad kind)
OH MY GOODNESS WHAT A BEAUTIFULLY BLUE DAY! We headed out to the wild Pacific today, ever in search of whatever life we can find and BOY OH BOY did we fin ALL of the life! Our afternoon trip started with a nice pod of common dolphns but we quickly spotted some much...
May 16, 2023 PM Sea lion on shark predation, fin whales and more!
Every day out here is a new adventure! We spotted multiple pods of long beaked common dolphins in a feeding frenzy that seemed to stretch over a mile long! We found a few fin whales just outside the La Jolla canyon- hanging out pretty close to shore compared to where...
Monday, May 15, 2023
We had another incredible trip this afternoon spotting 5 fin whales, a minke whale, Risso's dolphins and long-beaked common dolphins! -Ryan
May 14, 2023 Mothers Day
We had a couple of fin-tastic trips today! We set out west on the Pacific this morning and immediately met up with the best greeting committee- a pod of long beaked common dolphins in a feeding frenzy! After hanging with these little ones for a bit we headed further...
May 13, 2023
May gray is here and in full force! Our morning trip headed out to sea and found a small pod of long beaked common dolphins. There were lots of babies in this one. We pushed further and came across a pod of offshore bottlenose dolphins! They were pretty surface active...
Thursday, May 11, 2023
On our afternoon trip today we encountered two fin whales out on the drop off. When we got to the first fin whale we were waiting for it to come back up when we saw another spout about a mile south of us. Within minutes the two whales came up together and traveled...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
We had some wind and swell on the ocean today as we headed out on our two trips. We found both short-beaked and long-beaked common dolphins along with 2 Mola molas feeding on Velella velellas on our morning trip. Then on our afternoon trip we found a feeding Fin...
Monday, May 8, 2023
We had one afternoon trip today, and traveled northwest until we encountered a humpback whale! It breached out ahead of us and once we got to it we recognized it as a whale that we had seen hanging around off our coast for a couple weeks back in march! While with the...