by [email protected] | Aug 29, 2025 | Dolphins, Minke Whales, Recent Sightings
MINKE MADNESS aboard the Privateer! We sighted ~500 Common dolphins and 2 Minke whales on our amazing sunset trip! We left Mission bay and headed west and once we got to about 3-miles from shore, we spotted a fast-moving pod of ~100 Long-beaked Common dolphins! They...
by [email protected] | Aug 24, 2025 | Dolphins, Humpback Whales, Minke Whales
Super Cetacean Sunday!! We had a Happy Humpback whale on the sunset trip that BREACHED at least 25 TIMES including other incredible surface active behaviors! We also had a Minke whale on the afternoon trip as well as Common dolphins ALL DAY! We had an awesome couple...
by Olivia Trahan | Aug 24, 2025 | Announcements, Dolphins, Recent Sightings
Our usual summer weather in the mornings is overcast. A gray Sunday morning greeted an enthusiastic group of passengers with what is known as an atmospheric marine layer, a temperature inversion. This occurs along the coast from here to San Francisco and...
by [email protected] | Aug 22, 2025 | Dolphins, Recent Sightings
Our wildlife viewing began just a minute after we left the dock. Hundreds of birds and a dozen California sea lions, our feathered and flippered friends. We saw brown pelicans, snowy egrets, great egrets, Brandt’s cormorants, western gulls, Heermann’s gulls, and a...
by [email protected] | Aug 21, 2025 | Dolphins, Mola mola, Recent Sightings
WITH THE RIZZ! And by that I mean Risso’s dolphins! It’s been forever since we’ve seen these incredible dolphins but we got lucky with the COOLEST pod today! These Risso’s were pretty close to shore and RACING after something when we found them but very quickly...
by [email protected] | Aug 20, 2025 | Dolphins, Minke Whales, Mola mola, Recent Sightings
We had a Wacky Whale Wednesday with sightings of Offshore bottlenose dolphin, Long-beaked Common dolphins and a MINKE whale! We started our afternoon off by cruising out to the west and cruising the drop-off. It was a bit quiet except for a small group of 4 large male...
