This is getting ridiculous. Trip after trip, and the running streak of high quality trips continue. Thursday morning, I returned from Moab, Utah to be greeted by a pod of (well over) two thousand dolphin, the vast majority of which were Risso’s Dolphin. Deep divers: they roam the edges of the continental shelf, hunting squid…
Have you noticed that a humpback whale’s head is really bumpy?! The dark bumps you see are called tubercles, they are a large hair follicle that covers the humpback’s rostrum. Nerves are within the tubercle and a short hair can also protrude from it. Many researchers believe that humpbacks could be using the tubercles to…
Fortune. I truly have the greatest job in the world. After a harrowing (near death) experience in the mountains, where I spend my abundant spare time, what better place to return to, than the almighty sea? Only the great expanses of water, with their wind and waves (or lack therof, in this case) could conjure…
Beautiful blue skies and a calm seas greeted our guest today at Discovery Whale Watch. Capt. Rod guided our crew and guest to a hot spot from yesterday that did not disappoint. From a distance we started seeing splashes from active Risso’s dolphins and the blows from a few humpback whales! We decided to concentrate…
We had a foggy morning with smooth seas aboard the Pacifica with Captain Rod and Alfredo as crew. It took us a whole hour of traveling north before finding any wildlife. We found a single humpback through the thin fog making its way west. We followed it until it brought us to another 4 humpbacks!…
Great conditions and warm sun made for a great trip aboard the Pacifica with Captain Rod and Alfredo as crew. The sightings started off with a big pod of Risso’s dolphins out in the middle of the bay. We stayed with them for a while, as a handful of Pacific white-sided dolphins darted in and…
A few days of large swells and high winds kept the Discovery Whale Watch crew off the water but upon our return today the animals were still there! Capt. Danny spotted one of my favorite cetaceans (big old science word for animals with a blowhole) before we left the harbor, Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins! A small…
Post voting solace on the Bay. While the country reeled over politics, 16 keen individuals found it better to spend the day venturing out into the high seas for some peace, quiet, and a little reverence for its creatures large and strange. Out in the middle of the bay, smack dab over the thalweg of…
Trip report for Friday, Oct 30: The eve of All Hallow’s Eve started out with a spooky vibe; a thick wall of fog enveloped us as we set out from Monterey Harbor. However, within 30 minutes, we burst through the other side and into a wide world of blue skies, blue water, and a crisp…
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONYENT. A terrifying day indeed. Terrifying, at least, for the anchovies and sea lions. Prey items had best run and hide today; killer whales, risso’s dolphin, and humpback whales were afoot on the bay. Our morning trip got a report from our sister ship, the Chubasco (out on her morning fishing trip), that…