Ohana means family and we ran into a massive pod of long-beaked common dolphins on the Ohana today! These long-beaked common dolphins live in a fission-fusion society where the size and composition of the social group change as time passes. The pod we encountered...
Do you know how much water is expelled in a whales spout? (Answer in comments, It may surprise you!) Speaking of spouts! With 15 knot winds knocking spouts down as fast as the whales were putting them up, we were able to find AN OUTRAGEOUS amount of whales out there...
Friday, March 1, 2024 Cheers to the start of an epic weekend on the Privateer! For our afternoon trip, we found a pod of ~100 long-beaked common dolphins about 2 miles from shore. We went a little further northwest and found a spread out pod of ~50 short-beaked common...
Happy Humpday! We spent the afternoon today searching for our whale friends and DOLPH-riends. We headed out west and travelled northbound along the drop-off and encountered a pod ~200 short-beaked common dolphins! They were making massive splashes with their huge...
We had the most AMAZING conditions out there today! Our morning trip had glassy seas and we were thankful it did! We came across 2 very sneaky gray whales. They changed direction on us at least 3 times and changed their speed a couple times. We waved goodbye and moved...
We had the largest single group of gray whales of the season today! We traveled out about 12 miles from shore where we first came across a large pod of hundreds of long-beaked common dolphins traveling quickly to the north. Then at about 12 miles out we came across a...
