Recent Sightings

April 2, 2024

Looks like the recent rainfall event stirred up some nutrient mixing in the water column bringing out lots of wildlife! On our morning...

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April 1, 2024

We had one trip today and some rare sightings! We started the trip off with some inshore bottlenose dolphins at the jetties, then a few...

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March 29, 2024

Happy Friday everyone! We found some dolphriends and California sea lions this morning. We saw mostly scattered pods of ~150 long-beaked...

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March 28, 2024

On today’s morning trip, we saw two pods of long-beaked common dolphins. The first pod consisted of ~200 LB common dolphins and the second...

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March 27, 2024

The Common dolphins were out in full force today! Everywhere we went there were dolphins spotted! Only a mile from shore, we spotted a...

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March 26, 2024

Today’s ocean program consisted of a sneaky Minke whale, a Mola-mola and ~150 Short-beaked common dolphins. During the afternoon trip, we...

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March 22, 2024

We had a FIN-tastic Friday aboard the Privateer! We caught up with a Fin whale on both of our tours today! During the morning trip, we set...

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March 21, 2024

March 21, 2024SMOOOOOOOOOTH sailing today! There’s not much better for us ocean goers than a calm glassy sea and warm sunny skies. We had...

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March 20, 2024

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 On flat calm seas today we’ve so far encountered two fin whales, ~50 offshore bottlenose dolphins, and various...

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March 19, 2024

We had an action-packed trip with whales and dolphins sighted on both tours! We started our afternoon trip with a Gray whale in Mission...

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March 18, 2024

March 18, 2024Looks like yesterday’s luck rolled through to today!We had found a playful pod of ~50 long beaked common dolphins just at...

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