A beautiful morning greeted crowds of outdoor enthusiasts, from us whale watchers to the hundred or more outrigger canoes participating in a regatta in the Mission Bay Channel. Spectacular colors and shouts from the cockswain mixed with the din of gulls. We saw...
GRAY WHALES IN JUNE?! Yup you read that right! On our morning trip, we were smooth sailing! We had amazing glassy and calm sea conditions! We cruised out to the SW and spotted thousands of birds! Many rafts of shearwaters all around! We spotted terns, gulls,...
The pacific is TEAMING with life – our waters are a bit warmer than they usually are this time of year – averaging about 69°. We’ve had an abundance of bait in our waters which appears to be attracting ALL of the dolphins to our waters.Usually we’d be...
Did you know only 1% of the world’s population will ever see a blue whale? And we had a full boat of lucky passengers joining that 1% club today!Captain Brian and the salty crew of the Privateer journeyed a short 6.5 miles south west of Mission Bay to hang out with a...
Who is responsible for the sunshine? We had one of our uncommon sunny days in what is typically our “June Gloom” season with associated marine layer making it cool and gray. Our deckhand immediately spotted a pod of Short-beaked common dolphins only 1.5-miles off of...
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...
