On our afternoon trip, we had sunny skies and just a little bit of a swell and wind chop. Just a few miles outside of Mission Bay, we spotted white water on the horizon with zig-zagging Common dolphins—650– and maybe a couple thousand wheeling seabirds. We were...
We had a Wacky Whale Wednesday aboard the Privateer! We cruised out toward the west and searched far and wide for wildlife. We got to the drop-off and finally started to see some bird activity. Most of the birds were in travel mode headed west. We followed the...
A lovely day after the Memorial Day holiday weekend. On both trips, we spotted thousands of seabirds flying in an excited manner, indicating an “all you can eat ocean buffet” of schooling fish, in multiple “bait balls” just beyond the Mission Bay Channel entrance....
Happy Memorial Day! We had such an epic day so far! We spent the day hanging out with cetaceans on the Pacific Ocean! On the morning trip we had a massive feeding frenzy of ~200 long-beaked common dolphins, California sea lions, shearwaters, terns and one humpback...
Such a fun and beautiful day on the water! Every trip is always different and we never what we are going to see! For our morning trip we cruised out to the west and just beyond the drop-off we spotted diving birds and a big pod of ~400 short-beaked Common dolphins!...
Beautiful wildlife on our AM and PM trips today! This morning, we headed west out of Mission Bay to begin our day on the water. Just after we reached the continental shelf, we began to see splashes in the distance. We found a small group of 50 common bottlenose...
