by [email protected] | Aug 8, 2025 | Dolphins, Mola mola, Recent Sightings
We’ve got TONS of anchovies scattered along the dro off that lead to us finding thousands of dolphins today! Long-beaks in the morning and short- beaks in the afternoon. The long-beaks were scattered over miles and followed by equally as many birds. The Short -beaks...
by [email protected] | Aug 7, 2025 | Dolphins, Recent Sightings
We caught up with two species of dolphins today! We enjoyed the presence of ~300 Long-beaked Common dolphin! They were slowly traveling to the south along the drop-off! We were excited to sea plenty of cow/calf pairs! The calves were being brave as they approached the...
by [email protected] | Aug 6, 2025 | Dolphins, Recent Sightings
It’s Totally Tubular Toothed Whale Wednesday! We had a beautiful day hanging out with both Long- and Short-beaked Common dolphins! We found them off La Jolla beyond the drop-off! The smallest pod was about ~20 and the largest pod was about ~300 individuals! We had a...
by Olivia Trahan | Aug 5, 2025 | Dolphins, Minke Whales, Mola mola, Recent Sightings
“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...
by [email protected] | Aug 2, 2025 | Dolphins, Minke Whales, Recent Sightings
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...
by [email protected] | Aug 1, 2025 | Dolphins, Minke Whales, Recent Sightings
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...
