Santa Barbara Cobalt is Back !
2015 08-22 SB Channel Captain Dave headed out to the southwest this morning to a region where we had some nice humpback whale sightings...
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Aug 21, 20151 min read
7 Humpbacks, 1 Minke and 1300 Dolphins on Calm Seas
2015 08-21 SB Channel One great thing about this marine layer pattern we are in is that the ocean surface has been mirror glass even...
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Aug 20, 20152 min read
High Flyin’ Humpbacks & Sea Lions & We Got Mugged
2015 08-20 SB Channel Acting on good intel from our friends in the fleet, Captain Eric steered a southwesterly course out of Santa...
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Aug 19, 20151 min read
Great Calm Seas and Loads of Life
2015 08-19 SB Channel Captain Dave started the trip today by running a bit further to the southwest where a great collection of biomass...
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Aug 18, 20152 min read
Surface Feeding Humpbacks and Much More
2015 08-18 SB Channel A thin marine layer pervaded our neck of the Santa Barbara Channel until well past 100 pm, but the warm (70.7F)...
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Aug 17, 20152 min read
Loads of humpbacks, commons, a Minke plus offshores too
2015 08-17 SB Channel Flat, calm and even glassy sea conditions returned to the Santa Barbara Channel making great whale watching...
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Aug 16, 20151 min read
Abundant Humpbacks, Commons and Risso’s
2015 08-16 SB Channel The fog was so dense there was less than ¼-mile visibility until it burned off around noon. Of course noon was...
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Aug 15, 20151 min read
Winds, swells and 3 humpbacks + dolphins too.
2015 08-15 SB Channel Captain Eric had to work for it today. Moderately high seas, strong winds and currents made it hard to move around...
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Aug 14, 20152 min read
Humpbacks Blowin’ in the Wind
2015 08-14 SB Channel Keen-eyed Augie and master boat-handler Captain Dave turned a potential Mr. Toad’s wild ride into an epic humpback...
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Aug 13, 20152 min read
Rough Seas and a Two Act Performance
2015 08-13 SB Channel Out of the moderate seas, swells and crisp winds a magical traveling troupe of five humpback whales sought out...
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Aug 12, 20151 min read
Blue Whales and Humpbacks (and Dolphins)
2015 08-12 SB Channel We spent the morning cruising across the Santa Barbara Channel where we found 200 or so long-beaked common dolphins...
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Aug 11, 20152 min read
Huge Amounts of Cetacean Biomass
2015 08-11 SB Channel We were all stunned by the enormous beauty of the day. Once again there was little to no swell on the surface until...
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Aug 10, 20152 min read
Loads of Humpbacks and Dolphins and a Friendly Elephant
2015 08-10 SB Channel Flat, gorgeous sea conditions with no wind at all until after 100pm, and a marine layer that went away with the...
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Aug 8, 20151 min read
Scads More Humpbacks, a Minke and loads of Dolphins
2015 08-08 SB Channel Although there was a marine layer until about 11am, the ocean surface was glass smooth for one of the most calm...
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Aug 7, 20152 min read
15 Solo Humpbacks, Dolphins, Red Crabs and the Cave
2015 08-07 SB Channel The day started with the crew looking at a large oil sheen on the surface of the water inside Santa Barbara Harbor....
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Aug 6, 20152 min read
Scarlet Copies her Alaskan Kin
2015 08-06 SB Channel Mother Nature sent a bit of weather and seas at us today in the form of a heavy/moderate chop with some wind too....
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Aug 5, 20152 min read
10 humpbacks and some surface lunges, plus dolphins galore
2015 08-05 SB Channel As we departed Santa Barbara at 1015 am there was more than medium chop, winds that formed white caps, and bright...
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Aug 4, 20152 min read
A GRAY whale for August, humpbacks, dolphins and more
2015 08-04 SB Channel A moderate chop from the southwest rolled through the Santa Barbara Channel today from winds up past Conception. It...
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Aug 3, 20152 min read
Eight Humpback whales and Thousands of Dolphins
2015 08-03 SB Channel Captain Eric likes to zig zag through the known hot spots. In fact, his beard is reminiscent of the famous Man...
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Aug 2, 20151 min read
A large batch of humpback whales plus dolphins too
2015 08-02 SB Channel Today was a carbon copy of yesterday with more humpback whales (10+), less common dolphins (400), and a light chop...
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