We’ve been having a whale of a time here on the Privateer! We enjoyed such flat, calm sea conditions in the morning that it was like a lake out there! We set out to the north and sighted some spouts out in the distance. A minke whale surfaced near some diving...
We’ve been having an incredible blue whale season so far this year! Today we had close encounters with 5 blue whales located off the continental shelf. We saw 7 other blue whales spouting out in the distance. On our way back to Mission Bay, we encountered a...
The Blue whales are still in town! We had a wonderful day full of Blue whales, Bottlenose dolphins, Common dolphins and birds! We left our dock and sighted ~5 Inshore bottlenose dolphins in the MB channel! Upon exiting the jetties, we were greeted to calm sea...
June 12, 2023 I don’t know what we did to deserve all of these whales but the blue whales have been INCREDIBLE! There are more blues close to shore this year than there have been in as long as we can remember! Just 7 miles from shore, there awaits a phenomenal,...
June 11, 2023 The pacific ocean remains a blue whale utopia! We headed out on our morning tour thinking that a heavy fog bank was going to ruin our chances of finding any life out there today! Boy were we wrong, and positively thrilled to be so . We broke through a...
We enjoyed a Super Cetacean Saturday! We had two amazing trips so far. During the morning trip, we set out to the west and observed spout after spout on the horizon. We caught up with at least 10+ Blue whales out there. The first Blue popped up right next to us and...