Grey but glassy seas with some rolling waves greeted us on our Sunday morning excursion.
Early in the trip we started out with a blue shark! Not a common sight for us.
We headed Northwest out to where all our pelagic feathered friends were heading.
They directed us to 2 different pods of long beaked common dolphins! The first pod of about ~50 enjoyed some people watching swimming sideways looking up at the passengers of the Privateer.
We found the mother-load of bird piles beyond the drop off with thousands of shearwaters and pelicans and another ~75 long beaks chasing the food around.
3 mola-molas were seen throughout the trip including a big 5-6 ft diameter mola, who let everyone get a good look and waved its massive top fin at us.
The sun came out for our afternoon trip, blue skies and seas. It was beautiful out with great visibility. The star of the show on this trip was an energetic pod of ~ 30 bottlenose dolphins!
Always a welcome and not common dolphin for us to see. They stampeded around after food and surfed along with us.
No baleen whales seen on our first 2 trips today but we are hoping for better luck on our sunset whale watch today.
-Naturalist Ruth
