“What’s with the cool weather, like air conditioning?” A question from one of our Arizona guests. After May “gray”, we had June gloom, July “no sky” and now we are in Fog-aust with the usual atmospheric marine layer of gray skies. When hot air rises inland of the...
Bottlenose dolphins greeted us in the Mission Bay Channel entrance. They came up to our bow to ride the pressure wave of our vessel, the Privateer, before returning to their work of foraging for food.Speaking of food, most food for dolphin pods and whales come in food...
A gorgeous glassy morning out on the Pacific led to a morning of Minke mayhem very quickly. Just a few miles from the coast we noticed some splashing in the water turned out to be a few hundred Long-beaked common dolphins. These dolphins were cruising through glassy...
This AM we had a fabulous trip! We left the jetties with amazing visibility miles out onto the horizon, calm seas, and a nice salty ocean breeze. We started out to the west and ran into a few large feeding groups of long-beaked common dolphins, totaling about 450 all...
We had beautiful seas, great visibility and a stealthy visit from a Humpback on the morning trip and a surprise Minke sighting on the afternoon trip! Both Short-beaked and Long-beaked Common dolphins were sighted all day! We left the jetties and had a quick sighting...
We were having a dolphin party aboard the Privateer! We sighted at least 8 different pods with lots of fun interactions with them! On our morning tour we sighted two feeding frenzies! The diving birds alerted us to the hotspot zone and we were thrilled to see them...
