It's been a crazy couple days, it's like a Blue Whale Invasion! Blue Whales are everywhere in our area right now and the ocean has been cooperating nicely. Blue Whales lunge feeding, fluking, even a Mom and Baby! Spots are still available for our trips, but get your spaces reserved!

Sightings July 29:

Blue Whales 26!

Minke Whales 2

Common Dolphins 800

Sightings July 28:

Blue Whales 27!

Common Dolphins 1300



Mom and baby Blue whales were back again today, and they brought their friends. I was able to get the above pic of mom fluking, while baby blew. More than once we were literally surrounded by whales. Another great day on the water.

Sightings today:

15 Blue Whales

150 Common Dolphins

 8 Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins

I could only do one whale watching trip today and I had to make a tough choice: Sperm Whale at Pt. Vicente or Blue Whales offshore...

I picked Blue Whales and I am so glad I did. We found 15 Blue Whales, including the mother/calf pair in the pic above. 15! Summer is here!

Sightings today:

15 Blue Whales

400 Common Dolphins

Epic day on the water! 5 Blues on our first trip, 8 on the second, hundreds of Common Dolphins, Mola Molas, and even a stinky Minke.

Sightings today:

13 Blue Whales

1 Minke Whale

300 Common Dolphins

5 Mola Molas 

WOW! What a day! I got home tonite and my pictures don't do justice to what we saw. We started out the morning off of Newport Beach, were we had 1 Blue on the 9am trip, 3 Blues on the noon trip. Then for the 3pm trip we went off of Long Beach: 9 BLUE WHALES! We were surrounded by them! So Cool! Tomorrow is my day off, they better still be here Wednesday!

Sightings today:

13 Blue Whales

300 Common Dolphins

6 Mola Molas

The krill is here and the Blue whales are feeding. I saw one surface lunge-feed today, but couldn't get the camera on it fast enough. That's ok, more to come. A great show today with dolphins, a Minke, and of course the big Blues.

Sightings today:

4 Blue Whales

1 Minke Whale

500 Common Dolphins

We had a great group of Blues off of Newport Beach, while our other boat had a Blue up off of Palos Verde. It's so cool to have a fast boat. Our afternoon passengers loved the adventure (and occasional refreshing spray) on the ride home. All in all a great day.

Sightings today:

4 Blue Whales

1 Minke Whale

500+ Common Dolphins

Such a cool whale/dolphin encounter today. Offshore Bottlenose dolphins were "bow-riding" off the front of a Blue Whale, but I couldn't get a pic of the whale and the dolphins at the surface at the same time. Sooo frustrating, but sooo cool to watch. I only got to do 1 trip today after being off yesterday, 2 trips tomorrow. You never know what we'll find... 

Sightings today:

1 Blue Whale

8 Offshore Bottlenose

300 Common Dolphins

It is difficult just from looking at pictures to really understand how HUGE a Blue Whale is. Blue Whales can weigh up to 400,000 lbs! They eat up to 8,000 lbs of krill per day. Check out how BIG a Blue Whale is compared to the bird (Shearwater) in the picture above from today's trip. It is such a blessing to hang out with the largest things ever to live.

Sightings today:

6 Blue Whales

2 Minke Whales

700 Common Dolphins

BLUES, BLUES, BLUES! A sunny perfect day with Blue Whales, a Minke and Common Dolphins!

Sightings Today:

3 Blue Whales

1 Minke Whale

and

0ver 1000 Common Dolphins!





Perfect weather out on the water today, and the Blue Whales came out to play!

Sightings today:
4 Blue Whales
1000+ Common Dolphins

Just enough rain today to make it cooler on the water. Common Dolphins everywhere today, also Molas.

Sightings today:

600 Common Dolphins

2 Mola Molas



Well it's been a few great days on the water, lots of Common Dolphins, Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins, and occasionally Risso's Dolphins.

Today we were fortunate to have Dr. Lei Lani and Shane from earthwatch.org helping us on our search for cetaceans in a light rain. A beautiful rainy day on the water.

Today's sightings:

1000+ Common Dolphins

10 Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins

and

6 Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins  

WOW! What a day on the water! Not only did we have a great day with Common Dolphins, but we had a huge pod of Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins that had to be jumping 10'-15' in the air. So cool. To top it off we found a mother/calf pair of Humpback whales. The baby breached REPEATEDLY! SO COOL! There's no telling what we'll find tomorrow.

Sightings today:

2 Humpback Whales

100 Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins

700 Common Dolphins

See you out there,

Capt. Carl



It's been a great few days of Risso's Dolphins, Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins, Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins, and Common Dolphins. It must be something in the water, but the Commons are putting on the best high-flying show I've ever seen!



Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach is a great place to walk, take pictures, and enjoy the wildlife of our coasts.

Sightings today:

Black Skimmers, Brown Pelicans, Black-Necked Stilts, Great Blue Herons, Curlews, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, California Least Terns, several other species of terns and wading birds too many to list. A relaxing place to spend my day off. Back to looking for dolphins and whales tomorrow.





Such a calm and sunny day out on the water. Still dialing in camera settings, but it helps to have such cooperative subjects.   

Sightings today:
700 Common Dolphins
15 OffshoreBottlenose Dolphins
4 Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins
and
8 Risso's Dolphins