San Diego Whale Watch Blog

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...

April 2, 2024

Looks like the recent rainfall event stirred up some nutrient mixing in the water column bringing out lots of wildlife! On our morning trip, we...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

March 22, 2024

We had a FIN-tastic Friday aboard the Privateer! We caught up with a Fin whale on both of our tours today! During the morning trip, we set out to...

March 21, 2024

March 21, 2024SMOOOOOOOOOTH sailing today! There’s not much better for us ocean goers than a calm glassy sea and warm sunny skies. We had both - AND...

March 20, 2024

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 On flat calm seas today we’ve so far encountered two fin whales, ~50 offshore bottlenose dolphins, and various pods of...

March 19, 2024

We had an action-packed trip with whales and dolphins sighted on both tours! We started our afternoon trip with a Gray whale in Mission Bay! It was...