It is Sunday Funday on the Privateer! For our morning trip, we travelled west passed the drop-off and encountered a massive feeding frenzy of several species of seabirds such as sooty shearwarters, elegant terns, California brown pelicans and some western gulls as...
Guess what friends?! Blue whales are still in town! We had a wonderful afternoon trip today! We saw two blue whales located near the drop-off! We had incredibly close up looks at both blue whales. We spent more time with the first blue whale and it raised their flukes...
We enjoyed an action-packed sunset trip today! We travelled west past the drop-off and encountered a pod of ~700 long-beaked common dolphins. They were very active today, leaping in and out of the water and creating large splashes. They also started to stampede as...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 The Pacific Ocean was teaming with life today! During our afternoon trip, we headed out west and then travelled north towards La Jolla. We were about 8 miles offshore. We also a red tide today, most likely caused by the rainfall event during...
Thursday, August 17, 2023 Oh, what a SWELL time on the ocean we had today! During our afternoon trip, we saw 75 long-beaked common dolphins even before we reached the drop-off. Then, we travelled west for a while and started to head north, as we were about to turn...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 Today’s sea conditions were pretty fair with light wind and overall good visibility. We were lucky enough to see baleen and toothed whales today! We travelled about 9 miles offshore. Around 7 miles offshore, we spotted a pod of short-beaked...
