Capt. Art's Wildlife Blog

Tour #6 Capt Art’s favorite spot April 19

Hello whalewatchers, Well our final day of 2011 season is here and we started the day in a great place at a great time–sunrise at Punta Colorado Isla San Jose. This is one of my favorite places in all of Baja.Thank you to Ilka Serpell who took this shot of Searcher at Punta Colorado earlier [...]

Tour #5 Whale and seabird day March 26

Hello whalewatcher, Today was an excellent day with several whale sightings. We started the day with a group of long-beaked common dolphin in Bahia Ensenada. Then prior to arriving at Islas Todos Santos, we saw a fin whale that we are sure is the same whale we have seen on previous trips. After a brief [...]

Tour #4 BLUE whales! March 14

Hello whalewatchers, Well we have had quite a morning already. It is only 9am and we have seen breaching humpbacks, a large herd of short-beaked common dolphin and two blue whales. They are all heading northwest so we haven’t really gone anywhere thus far, but we don’t mind! The weather is good with a large [...]

Tour #2 Mid-day dolphins and humpbacks Feb 12

Hello whalewatchers, Here’s our mid-day report from offshore Bahia Magdalena. We had calm seas, sunny skies, and a beautiful day. We came across a few dolphin this morning and the first bird we saw was a red-billed tropicbird. We also found a few humpback whales that were  traveling so we added another species of whale [...]

Tour #1 Feb 2 Gorda Banks

Hello all, Today we are in the Gorda Banks area to look for humpbacks. Windy conditions further north weren’t good for whalewatching so we moved south. We started our day with a very large herd of common dolphin and then we added yet another species to our list. We saw a sei whale and got [...]

Tour #1: Jan 24 at Islas Todos Santos and southbound

Hello all, Wow! What a tremendous start to our 2011 natural history season. We had calm seas, no wind, and sunshine–just a glorious day. We stayed really busy all day. Right after leaving Ensenada Harbor, we ran into about 1000 long-beaked common dolphin and as we approached Islas Todos Santos, we saw a fin whale [...]

2011 blog begins! Tour #1: Jan 24

Our 2011 tour season is officially underway.The first tour left last night as passengers arrived during a San Diego 70-degree sunny day. This morning, Capt Art is reporting beautiful sea conditions and a pod of 500 or more common dolphins around the boat (thank you to Sally Walton for her photo here) as they leave [...]