by Olivia Trahan | Aug 24, 2025 | Announcements, Dolphins, Recent Sightings
Our usual summer weather in the mornings is overcast. A gray Sunday morning greeted an enthusiastic group of passengers with what is known as an atmospheric marine layer, a temperature inversion. This occurs along the coast from here to San Francisco and...
by Olivia Trahan | Aug 19, 2025 | Announcements, Dolphins, Recent Sightings
Sunny, warm weather is a welcome respite from the marine layer we’ve had for more than half of the summer. We saw a lot of bird guano on the dock. White indicates birds are eating fish. Red guano is from a diet of krill, and purple or...
by Olivia Trahan | Aug 18, 2025 | Announcements, Dolphins, Recent Sightings, Whale Watching Blog
Monday 18 August 2025 Warm weather has returned to coastal San Diego. We saw plent of seaweed in the Quivira Basin, the reds, greens and browns. Large brown algae is called kelp. Eventually these seaweeds wash up on the shoreline and...
by Olivia Trahan | Aug 14, 2025 | Announcements, Dolphins, Recent Sightings, Whale Watching Blog
Our wildlife viewing began just a minute after we left the dock. Hundreds of birds and a dozen California sea lions, our feathered and flippered friends. We saw brown pelicans, snowy egrets, great egrets, Brandt’s cormorants, western gulls,...
by Olivia Trahan | Aug 11, 2025 | Announcements, Blue Whales, Dolphins, Recent Sightings
We saw a couple of warships. One was the USS San Diego, an amphibious warship of the San Antonio Class. We did see a couple of small pods of Long-beaked common dolphins; on our way out for a possible Blue Whale, which was reported to our captain,...
by Alison Moors | Jul 23, 2025 | Announcements, Dolphins, Fin Whales, Recent Sightings
We had a great time on the water! We had nice sea conditions and beautiful visibility! We cruised out to the west and once we got to the drop-off we headed up the coast! We spotted a nice feeding frenzy with terns, pelicans and gulls diving into the water! There were...
