All-day trip yields 5 cetacean species in flat calm seas.
2020 08-29 All Day SB Channel This was our summer all-day trip which departed at 8a and returned around 5p. The Santa Barbara Channel was...
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Aug 28, 20202 min read
15 or more giant blue whales and we watched 10. Spectacular!
2020 08-28 East Santa Cruz Island Skies were overcast with fogust stratus until we reached the land of the giants. Thereafter it was...
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Aug 27, 20202 min read
Perhaps 10 giant blues in the wind; we watched 5. Bright sun…clear water!
2020 08-27 SB Channel Moderate winds blew down upon us from the northwest and made the sea surface a bit choppy-but-doable. The sun was...
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Aug 25, 20202 min read
10 or more giant blue whales; we watched 6 in the breeze.
2020 08-25 SB Channel The sun came out as we left Santa Barbara Harbor and continued to shine upon the Condor Express all day. Fog to the...
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Aug 23, 20201 min read
Sunlight shines upon 5+ giant blue whales on a foggy day!
2020 08-23 SB Channel “Fogust” (as Daniel Swain recently called it) is back, with a small amount of smoke, and visibilities at times were...
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Aug 22, 20202 min read
Blue whale mom with her calf captivate fans and cameras alike!
2020 08-22 SB Channel Giant blue whales today feature mother and calf! Seas were mirror glass flat and calm. Skies were less smoky than...
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Aug 21, 20201 min read
A trio of giant blue whales…one does some unusual “racing.”
2020 08-21 Santa Barbara Channel Skies were smoky again today, consistent with all the fires going on across California. There was a...
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Aug 20, 20202 min read
Giant blues persist along Santa Cruz Island!
2020 08-20 Santa Cruz Island Giant blues persist along Santa Cruz Island! The entire state of California is under smoke-filled skies from...
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Aug 17, 20202 min read
A nice group of blue whales at Santa Rosa Island, muchos Minkes, and dolphins too!
2020 08-17 Santa Rosa Island There was a subtropical marine layer, a light breeze and no swell which made for great wildlife locating and...
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Aug 16, 20202 min read
Another sunny, calm & spectacular day full of cetaceans!
2020 08-16 SB Channel Captain Colton and his team ran across the Channel towards yesterday’s giant blue whale sightings at Santa Cruz...
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Aug 15, 20202 min read
Fabulous 2-island seacliff tour ends with giant blue whales!
2020 08-15 SB Channel Calm seas nearshore in the morning became a bit windy and choppy out near the islands in the afternoon. Skies were...
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Aug 14, 20202 min read
Sunny skies, calm seas and tons of fun in the “land of the giants”
2020 08-14 Santa Rosa Island Blue skies, blue water, blue whales and more… Skies were sunny all day and seas were calm. Captain Dave and...
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Aug 13, 20202 min read
Massive amounts of cetaceans includes 5½ different species.
2020 08-13 Santa Rosa Island The leading edge of a subtropical storm (near Cabo San Lucas) brought wonderful warm blue skies dappled with...
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Aug 12, 20202 min read
Large blue whale aggregation persists !
2020 08-12 Santa Rosa Island The large aggregation of blue whales persists! Captain Dave and his crew headed across the Santa Barbara...
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Aug 11, 20202 min read
30+ GIANT BLUE WHALES!
2020 08-11 Santa Rosa Island “Blues festival” in full gear: 30 giant blues watched. Captain Dave ran straight across the Santa Barbara...
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Aug 10, 20202 min read
Pelican Bay blue whales and dolphins.
2020 08-10 SB Channel The current population of giant blue whales in our area is distributed along an east-west line about 4 miles north...
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Aug 9, 20202 min read
Blue whale bonanza! (…and more)
2020 08-09 SB Channel – Southwest The world’s largest gluttons gathered near beautiful Santa Rosa Island for yet another day of...
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Aug 8, 20202 min read
TONS of blues, a humpback and 3 species of dolphins.
2020-08-08 SB Channel Southwest An Epic Adventure – Santa Rosa Island ! Skies became sunny soon after we rounded the harbor entrance buoy...
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Aug 6, 20202 min read
Our summer blues festival continues!
2020 08-06 SB Channel Summer blues festival is tons of fun! The high marine layer stratus was with us most of the day today except out in...
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Aug 5, 20202 min read
“Land of the giants” continues to yield tons of fun.
2020 08-05 SB Channel The fun continues in “the land of the giants.” The gray skies of the morning marine layer burned off around 1130am...
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