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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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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 #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 great looks at it. We thought it was a smaller fin whale but after looking at some great photos we determined it was definitely a sei whale.

We saw humpbacks over a large area. We were spotting mostly single whales until we came across a group of five whales and we stayed with them for quite awhile. Unfortunately the wind came up and the conditions made it hard to stay with the whales. We elected to go to Los Frailes and drop the anchor where it was calm.
We have seen 14 different species of cetaceans this trip for a total of 19 marine mammals (whales, dolphins, seals, and sea lions).
What a trip! Looking forward to the next one,
Capt Art

2011-02-03T07:08:32-08:00February 3rd, 2011|Trip Reports|
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Tour #1 January 29 Cabo San Lucas area

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 flapping, tail lobbing and more.
We went to Bahia Los Frailes for the afternoon and everyone went for a short walk and some people came back and got their snorkel gear went for a snorkel. The visibility was a little murky but everyone enjoyed it.
We are headed north tonight in good weather and hoping to make it to Isla San Jose.
More tomorrow,
Capt Art

2011-01-30T05:49:29-08:00January 30th, 2011|Trip Reports|
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