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Tour #1–Ensenada and Islas Todos Santos

Hello whalewhatchers,
We are excited to be on our first trip of the 2012 natural history season Today we saw several northbound gray whales, big groups of short-beaked common dolphins. three different species of pinnipeds, plenty of black oystercatches, and peregrine falcon at Islas Toda Santos.
The weather has improved greatly this afternoon with a period of wind just after lunch. The seas are calm now andsthe swell has dissipated. The front from yesterday has passed and the forecast for tomorrow looks promising.
Looking forward to Isla San Benito in the morning where we will anchor the boat and take people ashore for a nice island hike among the elephant seals.
Capt Art

2012-02-09T08:07:32-08:00February 8th, 2012|Trip Reports|
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Tour #1 scheduled for departure!

After weeks of glorious and sunny San Diego weather, things turned gray and wet today, just in time for our intrepid whalewatchers to wake up in town or arrive by plane. However, they are headed south to Baja where the sun lives and should have wonderful whales and weather soon enough. Some of our UK guests dealt with cancelled flights due to snow in London, so I guess a little bit of rain won’t get them down!

Stay tuned as the boat enters the whale-y waters of Baja California tomorrow. Smooth sailing!

2012-02-07T16:01:56-08:00February 7th, 2012|Trip Reports|
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Countdown begins!

Please forgive the lack of recent blogs…we are busy getting the boat and ourselves ready for the start to our Baja Whalewatching tour season. The first tour and the lucky 25 passengers are set to leave on Tuesday, February 7. You can be sure we will be adding posts DAILY from that day on.

With ideal winter weather (cross fingers it continues) and record sightings of migrating gray whales, orcas in Southern California, a satellite-tagged western gray whale coming over to the eastern Pacific, and loads of other marine-related news, we are really excited to share all this with our passengers! The first trips’ naturalists are Marc Webber (coming in from snowy Alaska) and Paul Jones (just a hop, skip and a jump away in San Francisco bay area), plus our stellar Searcher crew, we are READY to ROLL (well, maybe we need a bit of food aboard first!)

Please stay tuned and check back often!

celia

2020-07-15T16:35:20-07:00February 2nd, 2012|News|
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Updated information on the WESTERN gray whale

A satellite-tagged gray whale from the Russian side of the Pacific has crossed over to join the Eastern gray whales on southbound migration. We plan to watch for her (the satellite tag is visible on her back) on our trips into Baja’s San Ignacio Lagoon and in the open ocean. Click here for a map of her migration path: http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/Sakhalin2011

Here is a post from Dr Bruce Mate of Oregon State University:

“More on Varvara, the western gray whale from Russia, now in Baja, CA.  Interview with Dr. Bruce Mate: “…too early to know for sure what’s happening. One idea is that some grays near Russia are actually eastern grays that have sought out new territory because there are so many whales along the United States and Canada. Another possibility is that some western Pacific whales routinely cross the ocean but they haven’t been discovered until now”. Stay tuned!”

2020-07-15T16:35:20-07:00January 24th, 2012|News|
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