Hello whalewatchers, Today was another great day! We watched several humpback whales seeing all their usual behaviors like breaching, flipper flapping, tail lobbing and more. We also saw a cow with a very young calf along with an escort. Great whale watching today. A special treat was that it got calm enough that we saw [...]
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Hello whalewatchers, We had a spectacular day off of Bahia Magdalena today with a lot of life. It started off with good bird life and a group of six masked boobies (which was a treat), a Laysan albatross and plenty of shearwaters, frigatebirds and gulls. After identifying the boobies ,we had a humpback whale breach [...]
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Hello whalewatchers, We had some wind to deal with today that made whalewatching challenging, but we did get a really close look at a breaching humpback. We were able to follow the humpback after it quit breaching and we had some great views. It’s always exciting to watch these acrobats. To top that, we came [...]
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Hello whalewatchers, Here’s our mid-day report from the Gorda Banks area. We had great viewing of humpback whales all morning with all the classic behaviors associated with humpbacks. We started the day with a group of five whales and there were two in particular that breached several times. We have seen cows, calves and escorts [...]
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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 [...]
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Hello whalewatchers, Today was a great day at the Gorda Banks offshore Cabo San Lucas. We had great looks at humpback whales starting with a big group of 8. Lots and lots of fluke shots were taken today. After that, we were lucky to find two cow/calf pairs in shallow water and they were breaching [...]
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Hello whalewatchers, Today we spent the morning watching humpback whales. We had whales in view for the entire morning, with around a total of 30 humpbacks and seven gray whales, which was interesting to see this far south again. We had excellent looks at humpbacks, close-up looks at flukes, but not too much in the [...]
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Hello whalewatchers, Well this afternoon was very productive with plenty of whale sightings. We got great looks at a Bryde’s whalecow and calf along with 4 or 5 other Bryde’s whales. We also spotted a few humpbacks, and at the end of the day we had a good look at a fin whale cow and [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Hello whalewatchers, We started our day with a trip into the mangroves at the south end of Isla San Jose. The tide was right and everyone enjoyed the trip very much–lots of bird life. After that we went ashore at Isla San Francisco for a nice beach walk. We decided to adjust the itinerary and [...]
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Hello whalewatchers, Another great day in Baja! We started in the Gorda Banks area and listened to humpback whales singing on the hydrophone. There were scattered bottlenose dolphin around us and a great sunrise. We saw between 30 and 40 humpback whales throughout the morning and some of their acrobatic behaviors such as breaching, flipper [...]
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Hello whalewatchers, Today we added two more species of whales and two more species of seabirds. We found humpback whales this morning–a total of 12 whales. This afternoon we saw a blue whale and it was a fluker so everyone got great looks at both types of whales. A red-billed tropicbird circled the boat this [...]
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