I used to believe that these magical conditions during our fall months were nothing more than a myth – This year is changing that. The whales are ABUNDANT but what’s also been so incredible is the ocean conditions, the swell has been minimal, the Santa Ana’s...
It was a Super Cetacean Saturday! Cetaceans include whales, dolphins and porpoises! While we didn’t see any porpoises we did see a small handful of Long-beaked Common dolphins and HUGE Competition pod of EIGHT Humpback whales! We had the best time watching them come...
We had an amazing day with 2 Humpbacks, ~500 Long-beaked Common dolphins and incredible visibility! We could see out to San Clemente Island and far down south to Mexico today! The seas were flat and calm and felt like we were cruising on a lake! We set out to the west...
Sunset and whales – WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK FOR? Not much.We set to the north in hopes to encounter some action we’d heard about earlier in the day. We didn’t see a wild feeding frenzy but we did encounter tons of shearwaters and a very zig zaggy whale! This was...
We accompanied a pair of Humpbacks down to the south along the drop-off! The pair was nice and relaxed traveling next to each other, even synchronizing their breaths! They had 7-12min dive times and lifted their flukes on almost every dive! They popped up on both...
THREE Humpbacks for the WIN! We cruised out to the west, and spotted at least 600 Long-beaked Common dolphins traveling fast to the south! They zoomed up to us and bow-rode the boat and surfed our wake! We observed some high flyers! Some breached and porpoised all...
