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2016 Tour 4 offshore Cabo San Lucas

Hello whalewatchers:
What a great day on Searcher! We enjoyed the nice weather and watching several groups of humpback whales fluking, often at the same time. Everybody had a chance to get a great photograph of humpback flukes. We are headed to Los Frailes for a snorkel and a walk later.

tour 4 watchers
We had a great afternoon at Los Frailes with excellent birding during our wildlife walk led by Lee Morgan. Other passengers enjoyed the perfect beach weather and spent time lounging in the sand.  About half of our Searcher guests then had a short skiff ride to the nearby reef where some excellent snorkeling was enjoyed – they saw surgeonfish, angelfish, a green moray, guineafowl pufferfish, pipefish, parrotfish, rainbow wrasse, Sierra mackerel, spotted ray and lots more.  We are off to La Paz next to observe whale sharks and swim with sea lions at Los Islotes.
Capt Aaron and Team Searcher

2020-07-15T16:34:45-07:00March 30th, 2016|Trip Reports|
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2016 Tour Offshore Cabo San Lucas

Hello whalewatchers:  We watched some humpback whales today that were very active– fluking and  breaching. (Many thanks to Rob Nawojchik for the photo used here.) We went ashore at Los Frailes for a nice hike and finished the day with a snorkel there. Snorkelers reported seeing lots of fish. We’re heading up into the Sea of Cortez tonight to be in a area to snorkel with whale sharks.
Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew

2016-03-15T08:53:20-07:00March 15th, 2016|Trip Reports|
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2016 Tour 1 Cabo San Lucas area

Hello whalewatchers: We had a great morning of whalewatching with good looks at humpback whales. There were plenty of whales around the Gorda Banks area. Just about every direction you wanted to look, there were spouts or a breacher. Today’s photo is of a cow (at the surface) and calf that were tail-lobbing together, and the calf was breaching repeatedly.trip 1 humpback lobtail
In addition, we had a rarity today: rough-toothed dolphins. These are animals that we haven’t seen in this area before. We also spotted a few bottlenose dolphin and a red-billed tropic bird to add to the list today.
We stopped at Los Frailes for a beach walk and some birding, and we will have dinner here in a calm spot.
Headed north tonight.
Team Searcher

2020-07-15T16:34:48-07:00February 15th, 2016|Trip Reports|
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Tour #6 Offshore Cabo San Lucas, Los Frailes

Hello whalewatchers: We had another awesome day today with great weather, clear skies, calm seas and light winds. Great sea birds this morning again–frigates, black and least storm petrels, brown and masked boobies, pink-footed shearwaters, red-billed tropicbirds too! The whalewatching was tremendous with a humpback cow and her calf with an escort and all the cool behaviors that humpbacks display. Also great singing on the hydrophone!
We saw a few loggerhead turtles as well. We stopped at Los Frailes and we were able to get a snorkel session in 77-degree water and fair visibility. Almost everyone went ashore for a walk and had great birdwatching.
Today’s photo is a brown and masked boobies up close.tour 6 boobies
Team Searcher

2020-07-15T16:34:53-07:00April 14th, 2015|Trip Reports|
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Tour #5 Islas Los Islotes and more

Dear whalewatchers: The group has arrived to Cabo San Lucas and has departed the boat. The report from yesterday was stellar! They enjoyed some birdwatching in the mangroves at Isla San Jose, snorkeling with sea lions at Islas Los Islotes and then the trip topper–time spent watching sperm whales–Wow!

Next tour leaves Wednesday, lead by Searcher’s Paul Jones and Birdquest’s Marc Van Beirs, and we’ll get back to full daily reports.

2015-04-04T11:37:54-07:00April 4th, 2015|Trip Reports|
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