Our fearless guests showed up despite a heavy mist, a gray morning with persistent drizzle. But the “June gloom did not deter our intrepid whale watchers. We got some looks at a fishing vessel offloading thousands of anchovies—bait fish—at the floating bait dock in...
We had an amazing morning trip with a Fin whale, a big pod of 200 Long-beaked Common dolphins and ~30 Offshore Bottlenose dolphins! We left Mission bay and cruised out toward the SW. Along the way we sighted a couple purple-striped jellies! We reached the drop-off and...
The first day of June greeted our intrepid travelers and guests with liquid sunshine, the official “June Gloom” of coastal overcast weather. The drizzle gave way to clearing skies and we headed out to the 9-Mile Bank, part of the Coronado Escarpment of underwater...
A whale-y eventful day so far!! We started the day headed west and ran into a pod of about 700 long-beaked common dolphins. They were a super spunky group, breaching and riding our bow. Then we spotted a tiny blow a few hundred feet away, and found a minke whale!!...
On our afternoon trip, we had sunny skies and just a little bit of a swell and wind chop. Just a few miles outside of Mission Bay, we spotted white water on the horizon with zig-zagging Common dolphins—650– and maybe a couple thousand wheeling seabirds. We were...
We had a Wacky Whale Wednesday aboard the Privateer! We cruised out toward the west and searched far and wide for wildlife. We got to the drop-off and finally started to see some bird activity. Most of the birds were in travel mode headed west. We followed the...
