Sunshine, glassy seas, and Cetaceans! We left the Mission Bay jetties and spotted huge aggregations of birds only a couple miles from shore! They were feeding alongside Long-beaked Common dolphins! The dolphins raced up to us and bow-rode the Privateer. We followed...
Experience the thrill of our Gray Whale Season Adventure! We had the second gray whale encounter of the season today! A young gray whale was hanging out just outside of the kelp forest in La Jolla this afternoon and we got great looks at it as it took 5 minute dives....
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...
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...
The yearly gray whale migration is one of Earth’s most fantastic nature shows. Everyone who came to Mission Bay had a whale of a tale to tell. At about 10 a.m., a gray whale was seen along the Mission Bay entry channel off Mission Point Park, south of...
We had two trips today in great conditions. This afternoon we found 3 baleen species! We first encountered a northbound pair of cow/calf gray whales and spotted a third just a bit west of them. We then went out to the drop off where we found a minke whale that I first...
