2017 Tour #5 Gorda Bank/Los Frailes

Hello Whalewatchers!

We had a great morning! It started with a rare sighting of Orcas (aka killer whales) off Cabo. It always something we look forward to seeing, but haven’t in recent years – so this sighting was super exciting! The pair of whales, one female and one male, were traveling southwest. We spent a little time following them, but eventually lost track of them.

We arrived in the Gorda Banks area, and it didn’t take too long before we located a trio of humpbacks. We spent close to 2 hours with these whales and they provided us with all the behaviors we hope to see with humpbacks, such as: fluking, lob tailing, pectoral flipper flapping and breaching. It was spectacular viewing!

After leaving our new humpback friends, we came across some sea turtles on the surface and a red billed tropic bird too! If that wasn’t enough excitement already, we then came across a cow, calf and escort trio of humpbacks. They were very active with the calf breaching repeatedly and the cow lob tailing over and over again! The calf and the escort were thrashing their tails around as well. That sighting was perhaps even more spectacular than the first trio we saw.

We continued the day heading north to Bahia Los Frailes for a walk and a snorkel session, however the winds out of the south prevented us from getting to Bahia Los Frailes. Deciding to continue north in hopes of more whale sightings, we were rewarded with another pair of humpbacks that breached repeatedly for over an hour. Sometimes both whales at once. We don’t get see that very often. The power of these whales is remarkable.