Saturday, June 18, 2022
We had two cool trips today first with a couple hundred long-beaked common dolphins and 2 Molas in the morning and an active pod of offshore bottlenose dolphins and 2 more Molas in the afternoon! Ryan
June 17, 2022
Today we spotted a pod of 15 Risso's dolphins and a pod of 20 offshore bottlenose dolphin. The conditions on the water were absolutely beautiful and its shaping up to be a beautiful weekend on the Pacific! Naturalist, Alexia
June 16, 2022
It was a beautiful day on the water today! We had flat, calm seas and amazing visibility! We found a small pod of ~Inshore bottlenose dolphins right out of the gate! Along the drop-off we sighted a pod of ~50 Short-beaked Common dolphins. We zoomed out to the west and...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Conditions on the water were perfect again today and at about 9 miles out we found a blue whale! We also encountered a pod of ~30 offshore bottlenose dolphins on the way back to shore. -Ryan
June 14, 2022
We were rocking along on both trips today! Our morning trip ran into a small pod of about 100 long beaked common dolphins roughly 6 miles from shore. We made it out to 11 miles and ran into a single blue whale feeding. Our afternoon trip was a big dolphin trip! We had...
June 13, 2022
We were feeling Blue on the Privateer this Monday...but we were okay with it! We hung out with two BLUE whales out near the drop-off today. Many of the Blues we've been seeing are exhibiting feeding behaviors but this pair was in travel mode. They were slowly cruising...
Sunday, June 12, 2022
We had two incredible trips today! The morning saw 4 blue whales, long-beaked and leaping short-beaked common dolphins and the afternoon trip saw long-beaked commons, 1 fin whale, 3 blue whales and a Mola mola! -Ryan
June 11, 2022
June 11, 2022 Amazing conditions all day today! We got really lucky with our wildlife on our earlier trips today. We caught up with a cow calf pair of blue whales in both our morning and afternoon trips! There was also a total of SIX blue whales in our area during...
June 10, 2022
We had two amazing trips today with both baleen and toothed whales sighted throughout the day! There was a pretty curious Blue whale hanging out on the drop-off, only 6-miles from Mission Bay. It was seen swimming in circles at the surface which means it was likely...
June 9, 2022
Thar she blows! We had a total of 4 different blue whales out on the water today! We caught up with a small pod of short beaked common dolphins about 5 miles from Mission Bay and 3 blues about 14 miles out. Our second trip got super lucky when we stumbled upon a...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
On both our morning and afternoon trips today we were able to find 3 blue whales, making it a total of 6 for the day! On the morning trip we also encountered 11 inshore bottlenose dolphins and on both trips we found multiple pods of feeding common dolphins. ...
June 6, 2022
It was a dolphin day! It was a little bumpy but we were rockin' and rollin' up to the north. We ran into a stampeding pod of long beaked common dolphins out on our afternoon trip today. We're thinking it was about 200 total and it happened to also be a nursery pod! ...