The Common dolphins were amazing today! On our morning trip, we cruised out to the drop-off and spotted some birds to the NW of us. We went to investigate and found a big pod of ~200 Long-beaked Common dolphins! They were sighted in all directions around us, very...
It was a swell day with swell dolphins! We pushed out of the Mission bay jetties and cruised to the west. While scanning all around us, we noticed a lot of bird activity to the south. The birds were scattered over a mile or two! Once we got a little closer, we could...
You just never know what you’re gonna sea out there on the ocean! We had a beautiful day with calm seas and patchy fog. We started the day out with a couple of Inshore bottlenose dolphins riding the bow in the Mission Bay channel. We hugged the coast to the...
The whales are here! All sorts of them! Our afternoon trip was lucky to see a pair of grey whales on their migration south to Mexico from Alaska, Bering sea, & Chukchi Sea. This is the longest migration of any mammal, can range from 10,000 miles to 14,000 miles...
We had a fun foggy sunset trip today! We set out of Mission bay and could see a huge fog bank coming in! We watched it coming from the SW so we went to the NW and followed a nice pocket of good visibility. We had smooth seas out to almost 10-miles from shore! We...
Humpback, Common dolphins, and feeding frenzies oh my! We had a wonderful swelly trip aboard the Privateer! We set out to the NW, passed the drop-off and in 2000-ft of water we sighted a HUGE pod of Long-beaked Common dolphins! We nearly had a MEGAPOD that surrounded...
