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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Did you know that a dolphins echo location is SO GOOD that we still have personnel dolphins in the navy? YEAH! Us humans with all of our abilities to invent highly capable technology – STILL havent been able to invent something that can more reliably detect a...