We found Humpbacks Whales north along the sand dunes today. The whales have been roaming this part of the coast most of the summer so far. When we left the harbor we entered some foggy conditions out on the bay. As we worked our way up the coast we encountered several areas where Humpbacks and…
The Chubasco and the Sur Randy both went whale watching this morning. We started out with a nice sunny day at the wharf, but that quickly changed when got outside the harbor. We entered a thick fog bank and had quite a bit of swell to deal with while searching for whales. The vessels took…
What a beautiful day in the bay. We observed five species of marine mammals once we left the harbor! We started our trip with Humpback Whales and California Sea Lions feeding together. Up next we had a large pod of Risso’s Dolphins (500-600 dolphins) with a small number of Pacific Whitesided Dolphins mixed in (30-40).…
Earlier in the day we had observed Blue Whales and Humpbacks. So our photographer, Slater Moore, joined us for the afternoon tour. The Blue Whales had moved out of the area, but we still had an excellent viewing of Humpbacks. We observed lunge feeding behavior from the Humpbacks and they were joined by over a…
Dolphins were the highlight of the day! We were watching a playful mom and calf Humpback Whale when suddenly a HUGE pod of Pacific Whitesided Dolphins came in the to the area. Mixed in with the Whitesides was another species dolphin as well – the Northern Right Whale Dolphin. The Northern Right Whale Dolphin is…