The ocean was full of cetaceans today! On our morning trip, we headed up north towards La Jolla canyon we saw sporadic pods of ~400 Long-Beaked Common dolphins, and ~35 Pacific White Sided dolphins. We also saw one Humpback whale. On our afternoon trip, we saw more...
Happy hump day! Today’s grey skies matched our friendly Grey whale friends! The ocean was a bit quiet for most of our morning trip. We headed out west and then southbound towards the 9-mile bank. We thought all of the cetaceans were taking a day off today, but just in...
The early boat gets the whale! Wait… that’s not how that goes!We did get the whale and all the dolphins this morning!Dolphins right out of the gate and dappled through our entire trip! We hung out with our friendly lil grey whale that’s been chilling just off the...
Sunshine, glassy seas, and Cetaceans! We left the Mission Bay jetties and spotted huge aggregations of birds only a couple miles from shore! They were feeding alongside Long-beaked Common dolphins! The dolphins raced up to us and bow-rode the Privateer. We followed...
Experience the thrill of our Gray Whale Season Adventure! We had the second gray whale encounter of the season today! A young gray whale was hanging out just outside of the kelp forest in La Jolla this afternoon and we got great looks at it as it took 5 minute dives....
Every day out here is a new adventure! We spotted multiple pods of long beaked common dolphins in a feeding frenzy that seemed to stretch over a mile long! We found a few fin whales just outside the La Jolla canyon- hanging out pretty close to shore compared to where...