We got great looks at a humpback whale today that even breached right before we left! This humpback we recognize by its almost all white pectoral flippers and white markings on its back as being a whale we saw over the weekend as well. -Ryan
March 19, 2023
We had a big day out there on the Privateer! Our morning trip caught up with a megapod of long beaked common dolphins off the drop-off. There were lots of babies! We also found a cow-calf pair of humpback whales! They were very surface active. Our afternoon trip...
Saturday, March 18, 2023
We had a great day on the water full of wildlife! The morning started out pretty foggy but had over a thousand common dolphins. This afternoon we found another big pod of long-beaked common dolphins feeding under birds and there were also 3 humpbacks in the area of...
March 17, 2023
We had super lucky day full of sightings! Our morning trip caught up with a fun pod of ~50 Offshore bottlenose dolphins up to the north. The afternoon cruise, encountered ~150 Long-beaked Common dolphins, 2 northound Gray whales, and 1 juvenile Humpback! On the Sunset...
We had an outstanding day full of cetaceans! We started the day with ~50 Long-beaked Common dolphins, ~20 Offshore bottlenose dolphins and 3 Gray whales! The Common dolphins were fun to watch as they came up to the boat! The Gray's were headed north back up to the...
March 14, 2023
It was a wet one on the Privateer but that didn't stop us! Our sunset trip pushed 12 miles south, just touching the border, and found a pod of about 300 long beaked common dolphins. They were super excited to see us and swam right over to the bow. We had lots of wake...
Monday, March 13, 2023
We got to see two species of dolphin today that we don't see very often! We first had a pod of Risso's dolphins and then a big spread out pod of offshore bottlenose dolphins that rode our bow and our wake. Conditions could not have been better either! - Ryan
March 12, 2023
It was a foggy one out there this morning! Our morning trip set out into the mist in search of wildlife. We came across a small pod of about 100 long beaked common dolphins. We pushed further West and found a group of about 30 short beaked common dolphins! It was...
Saturday March 11, 2023
We had a mostly foggy day all day offshore but found feeding pods of long-beaked common dolphins and a couple of Mola molas during our 3 trips! -Ryan
March 10, 2023
Gray skies, gray seas, and gray whales! It was a wet one out there today on the Pacific. Our morning trip set out to find wildlife and stumbled across 2 northbound gray whales right out of the jetties! They were kind of shy but we stayed as long as we could. We pushed...