Beautiful Morning for our private charter with the calmest seas we’ve had in days and an abundance of sunshine.
This glorious weather made visibility excellent especially with no white caps or wind waves.
We also had an abundance of long beaked common dolphins hanging out around 3 miles from shore on the nearly glassy seas! The charter enjoyed a variety of hunting techniques exhibited from the long beaks as well a tons of surfing and bow-riding.
In total we saw about ~400 long beaked common dolphins between the 3 pods.
We also got lucky with ~50 offshore bottlenose dolphins! They were much bigger than the commons but just as boat curious and had a couple newborn bottlenose in tow! Seeing the fetal fold creases on the babies helped us determine the age from the little dolphins, they were adorable.
-Naturalist Ruth
