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3 Gray Whales and Excellent Cetacean Diversity Again the calm seas and excellent weather made whale finding and whale watching a dream come true. Today the Condor Express located and watched three individual gray whales: one mid-Channel, one on the west end of Santa Cruz Island, and the third a bit east of the famous Painted Cave. In addition to …
Humpback whale antics With very rough seas and high winds out a the Islands, Captain Eric steered a course for the eastern Santa Barbara Channel today in search of humpback whale and other marine mammals. He played with at least 2,000 common dolphins and then found one of the mother-calf pairs that we saw throughout the Fall season. Both mom …
Tie score: Mysticetes 2 vs Odontocetes 2. Although there were rumors of both Risso’s dolphins and Minke whales in the Channel today, we did not see either of those two species, and so the final score card was a tie. There was a light chop and breeze plus overcast skies as we left Santa Barbara Harbor for the mid Channel …
Capt Mat reports from a private afternoon whale watch cruise…75 offshore bottlenose dolphins played with the Condor Express around the mid-Channel buoy. These very large, extremely agile dolphins are known for their fantastic high jumping and turns. Bob
Capt. Dave ran the condor offshore to the islands today for a special trip even though it is coastal gray whale season and at the island he found the mother load of humpback whales seven whales closely approach the boat and played with the boat for over an hour this included breaching pectoral fin slapping tail lobbing the Full treatment …
Capt. Dave reports three pairs of cow calf pairs for a total of six gray whales and 15 bottlenose dolphins With spectacular sea conditions. Best Bob
The Condor ran two trips (9am and 3pm), and had TEN cow-calf gray whale pairs….that’s TWENTY gray whales, in case you think otherwise. Captain Dave Beezer could hardly contain his jubilance today when he reported the sightings. Furthermore, Dave says the little calves were going bananas, spyhopping, rolling around, climbing on top of mom’s back, and generally acting like a …
Two young, perhaps yearling, gray whales pairs were seen on each trip for a total of four nice sightings. Captain Dave reports ideal glassy calm sea conditions again today with two trips going off the docks. Best Bob Perry Condor Express
Captain Dave reports from the Condor that all 3 trips (9a, 12n, 3p) ran and had great looks at cetaceans. In all 15 gray whales were closely observed. Also 20 coastal bottlenose dolphins and 100 common dolphins were seen. As with yesterday’s adventure, on two trips we had breaching gray whales…on the 3pm trip the breaching gray must have gotten …
Excellent Gray and Humpback whale watching today It was a cool day but the Channel was glassy smooth with calm winds. Gray and Humpback whale watching was excellent today. Captain Mat Curto used his keen eyes to put the Condor Express on 3 gray whales, 50 common dolphins and 2 humpback whales. At least 6 additional humpback whales were seen …