15 July 2025. AM Morning Trip: We had an overcast day. July “no sky” follows “May gray” and “June gloom” for the coastal regions of Southern California. This is excellent lighting for photography, without the contrast of sun and shadow. Set your ISO on your DSLR and...
Our morning—the 2nd full day of summer after the solstice took place on 20 June— began with good looks at herons, egrets, gulls, cormorants, pelicans and a pair of black oystercatchers in Quivira Basin. Our flippered friends were a bit quiet, the sea lions were...
The seas were up and so were our spirits! We were excited to out on the Pacific to find wildlife today! On our sunset trip, we caught up with two fun pods of Common dolphins! Right of the bat, we sighted a bunch of birds diving only a couple miles from shore just...
Feeding Frenzy Friday! We are hungry to see what’s in store for the weekend! We started the day out by pointing our nose to the SW. We spotted big aggregations of birds diving in the water. Once we got within a mile from them, we were excited to see dolphins jumping...
We were rocking’ and rollin’ on the open sea today! But we had great visibility all day! We spotted 2 surfing inshore bottlenose dolphins on our way out of the morning trip. We continued to the drop-off and found an awesome pod of ~300 Long-beaked Common dolphins....
Thursday, June 6, 2024 We had some Blue-tiful whales on both trips today! On the morning tour, as soon as we left the Mission Bay jetties, we sighted a huge pod of ~200 Long-beaked Common dolphins feeding under diving birds! You could see the small schooling fish...
