Monday 18 August 2025 Warm weather has returned to coastal San Diego. We saw plent of seaweed in the Quivira Basin, the reds, greens and browns. Large brown algae is called kelp. Eventually these seaweeds wash up on the shoreline and...
The has been one mix up of a summer on the Pacific. We hung out with a Grey whale that looked pretty healthy all afternoon! It was steadily heading north up the drop off, strong surface breaths and pretty solid body condition. We caught up with some awesome long...
We went way offshore to the 9-Mile Bank, part of the Coronado Escarpment. It is an underwater ridgeline with interesting bathymetry for scientists that tow a torpedo-like device that does side-scan sonar, a type of mapping of the bottom of the...
We had two amazing trips with sightings of Offshore bottlenose and Long-beaked Common dolphins! On our afternoon trip, we cruised out to the SW toward the 9-mile bank. Plenty of birds like shearwaters and California brown pelicans were sighted flying to the south. We...
What a WILD end to the day! So many surprises! We headed way off shore and found two pods of common dolphin, both short- beaks and long- beaks spread out over a few miles, they were feeding and getting very playful in the wake! O our way home, it was lookin a bit...
Our wildlife viewing began just a minute after we left the dock. Hundreds of birds and a dozen California sea lions, our feathered and flippered friends. We saw brown pelicans, snowy egrets, great egrets, Brandt’s cormorants, western gulls,...
