Oh what a whale of a time we had on the water today! We found the FINest FIN whales around 8 miles offshore. At first, we sighted a spout from a Fin whale which brought us to the general area where we encountered 2 more Fin whales for a total of 3 Fin whales during...
Fin- omenal day out to sea! There really is nothing like clear blue skies, clear blue water, and a WARM sunny day out in San Diego waters. We started the trip out with a small nursery pod of dolphins but they seemed to want to keep their distance so we watched them...
SEA MONSTER ALERT! Our Sunset trip got a wild surprise! Valella Vallella (aka By the Wind Sailors) have been INVADING our waters! With the tiny tentacled sailors, come their predators! A monstrously large Mola Mola ( aka Ocean Sun Fish) appeared to start vacuuming the...
We had an action packed day with big swells, big whales, and big fish! After rolling through the big waves in the jetties, we set out to the west. A pod of ~50 Long-beaked Common dolphins rushed toward the Privateer! We observed them riding the bow and surfing our...
First blue whale of the Season!The Privateer had a very exciting Sunday sunset trip! With the most pleasant calm seas we headed through a very large and widely scattered pod of long beaked common dolphins. Once we were 11 miles from Mission Bay we found a sub adult...
FIN WHALES ARE STILL TOWN!! We had an absolutely FINtastic time today on the water from start to FINish! We had three trips today with amazing sightings all day. This morning we found 2 fin whales straight out on the drop off, saw around ~100 long beaked common...