by Alison Moors | Jul 9, 2025 | Recent Sightings, Whale Watching Blog
July 9, 2025 Wednesday: Sunny skies greeted our enthusiastic guests on this mornings wildlife tour of Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Our moon phase is at full moon, meaning Spring tides, when we have a New or Full moon, the sun, moon and earth are in-line, this...
by Alison Moors | Jul 8, 2025 | Recent Sightings, Whale Watching Blog
8 July 2025 AM Tuesday “There she blows!-there she blows!” This is what some of us might think when we book a whale watch. This is the famous quote from Chapter 5 of the famous Herman Melville novel “Moby Dick” the epic written in 1851, just a...
by [email protected] | Jul 7, 2025 | Dolphins, Mola mola, Recent Sightings, Whale Watching Blog
Common dolphins showed up big time for us today! We had two awesome trips with both Short- and Long-beaked Common dolphins showing off their acrobatics and playful nature! To start our morning trip, we spotted a small pod of ~30 Long-beaked Common dolphins feeding...
by Alison Moors | Jul 6, 2025 | Dolphins, Minke Whales, Recent Sightings, Whale Watching Blog
A bit of a swell greeted us as we exited the Mission Bay Channel. Captain Brian pointed out some Nearshore Bottlenose dolphins surfing the swell and foraging for wayward fish between the artificial reefs of the rip rap rocks. Mission Bay was constructed in the late...
by Alison Moors | Jul 5, 2025 | Dolphins, Humpback Whales, Minke Whales, Mola mola, Recent Sightings, Whale Watching Blog
The early bird gets the worm! Nice to see a lot of adventurous folks for the morning tour after all the festivities of the Fourth of July last night. We practiced our observation skills at the floating bait dock, where hundreds of thousands of forage fish are kept...
by Alison Moors | Jul 4, 2025 | Dolphins, Humpback Whales, Recent Sightings, Whale Watching Blog
Happy 4th of July everyone! We are seeing RED, WHITE and BLUE skies today! We had a wonderful day spent with a Humpback and hundreds of Common dolphins! This morning we cruised out of the Mission bay jetties and right out of the gate, we spotted a big feeding frenzy...
