Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Saturday, March 01, 2014
Humpbacks Here and Humpbacks There! | Julien 
While we spend a lot of time on the water in SoCal, we also like to travel to other places to see and learn about whales. Kera Mathes, our boat programs coordinator, and I recently took a long vacation to the Big Island of Hawaii, where I used to live. We spent ten days in Hilo and Kona looking for whales! Read on to find out what is going on in the world of whales, and check out some great shots taken from the islands.
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Thursday, February 06, 2014
Breachers! | Julien
As we conclude the first month of 2014, we can truly say that it has been a fantastic month of whale watching! January has been the peak month where many of the southbound whales have been sighted. As mentioned in earlier blogs, we have had record breaking numbers of southbound sightings!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Thursday, January 23, 2014
A Killer Start to 2014…Again! | Julien
Happy New Year, Whale Fans!
The first day of the new year started off with another sighting of the Bigg’s killer whales! Like clockwork, these beautiful whales graced us with their presence yet again on New Year’s Day. This will be the third consecutive year they have been sighted on our whale watches on this exact day. Read on to learn more about our black and white whale friends and much more!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Whales AND Dolphins AND Sea Life! | Julien
It is not ‘no whale November’ folks, even though we are not in an official whale season; we are still seeing whales and having really exciting trips on our dolphin and sea life cruises! One of the big highlights was a November blue whale! Read on to see what other interested marine life we have seen and see some great shots of them!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Thursday, November 14, 2013
A Pair of Masked Booby Birds and More! | Julien
October was a great month for whale watching and we even spotted more than just whales, dolphins, and pinnipeds! We got some rare avian visitors who stayed in town for eight days straight! The masked boobies were stealing the show for many of our trips and bird enthusiasts came from miles to see these rarities. Read on to read about these birds and see some great photos!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Fins and Minkes: The Other Guys! | Julien
The blue whale definitely took center stage this summer with their amazing displays of size and appetite, but what about their smaller cousins? The blues have continued to give us great trips with their surface lunge feeding but the fin whales and minkes have also been around feeding along with the blues on the krill! Read on to learn about these other guys!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Friday, September 27, 2013
Familiar Flukes | Julien
The end of August was full of excitement with more lunge feeding, krill at the surface and many familiar flukes! A part of our research on-board deals with identifying the different individuals of blues that visit us every year and we’ve had some whales come back to the area multiple times. Read more to find out which whales we have been sighting!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Friday, August 23, 2013
Lunge Feeding Frenzies! | Julien
So far, August has not disappointed as one of our best months to see blue whales! Not only are we seeing the blues but we are seeing them feeding on krill at the surface. This type of behavior is
called surface lunge feeding and it makes for a pretty memorable experience as a guest on board and even for us educators! Read on to hear more about our blue whale stories.
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Tons of Blues and Other Marine Life Too! | Julien
We kicked off our July with spectacular whale sightings and it has only been getting better! We have been seeing at least three blue whales per trip and even fin whales and minkes as well! In the month of July we had NINTEY-FOUR blue whale sightings alone! Keep reading to find out more!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Whales, Sunfish, and Sharks! | Julien
June was a fun month on the boat with each day being more unpredictable than the next. Some of the highlights of the last month included sightings of massive sunfish and even a juvenile great white shark! Read more to get the inside scoop about the month of June on the water.
