Hello whalewatchers,
Today’s weather is fabulous with sunny skies and calm seas. We started our day at the south end of Isla San Jose with a trip into the mangroves. The skiffs spent three hours in the mangroves and had a wonderful trip with lots of birds to see.
We left there and headed up the San Jose channel looking for whales and dolphin. At the northern end we found a fin whale and had great up close looks. A little north of that we found a dwarf sperm whale surface right next to us and we were able to have a great look at it. We saw two other dwarf sperm whales as well today. It’s always great to see that species!
We saw four tropicbirds, had great looks at Craveri’s murrerlets on the water with adults and chicks, one long-tailed jaeger, and a large flock of mixed red and red necked phalaropes. Towards the end or the day we saw another fin whale.
We headed north to Isla Santa Catalina for the night and to go ashore early tomorrow.
Capt Art
p.s. The photo is Chef Charles’ shot of a dwarf sperm whale cow and calf
