February 26, 2024

February 26, 2024

We had the largest single group of gray whales of the season today! We traveled out about 12 miles from shore where we first came across a large pod of hundreds of long-beaked common dolphins traveling quickly to the north. Then at about 12 miles out we came across a...
February 25, 2024

February 25, 2024

We enjoyed another Sunday Funday on the Privateer! The ocean was abundant with our cetacean friends today! During our morning trip, we saw ~200 long-beaked common dolphins and a Grey whale. Then, on our afternoon trip we caught up with another Grey whale and a Minke...
February

February

It was a Super Cetacean Saturday! We encountered multiple pods of dolphins and Gray whales across the day. During the morning trip, we set out and found a small pod of ~15 Pacific white-sided dolphins! They were feeding under some diving birds. We continued out to the...
February 23, 2024

February 23, 2024

We encountered FOUR species of toothed whales and one species of baleen whale today! During our morning tour we sighted an awesome feeding frenzy with birds diving in the water! We observed about ~800 Long-beaked Common dolphins feeding all around us! We observed...
February 16, 2024

February 16, 2024

What a day to be mugged! The excitement on the boat was VISCERAL as 4 humpbacks swam STRAIGHT at us! Two dove deep but two decided we (the whole boat) were the coolest coolest thing! We had the pair of humpbacks lingering beneath our boat as we floated with our motors...