Californian
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A Great Earth Day with Orcas and Humpbacks – 22/4/25
What a great Earth Day it was today! We left the harbor and were greeted by a pod of Risso’s Dolphins. We had our looks at the pod and then proceeded to head south. Then about an hour later, the captain proceeded to turn the boat around and said they had reports of orcas. Surprisingly,…
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Monterey Killer Whales! – 24/8/24
Our trip started like any other whale watching trip out of Monterey harbor – a few sea otters and plenty of California sea lions and Brandt’s cormorants out on the breakwall. We ventured south to see what was around and plenty of Humpback Whales were definitely around. You could spot a spout from a Humpback…
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Frosty and His Crew – 29/4/24
CA216C1 “Frosty” and family were spotted off Newport Beach. We saw them briefly but I got footage with my drone of them. They appear to have hunting a gray whale as a couple of them have gray whale blubber in the mouth. Frosty has a rare pigmentation. Never thought I’d see a killer whale like…
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A Close Encounter with Hunting Killer Whales – 21/4/18
I went whale watching in Monterey Bay, California. We got there after the Killer Whales had killed a baby Grey Whale. While the Killer Whales were eating the carcass, some humpback whales came and tried to run the Killer Whales away. At one point there was a piece of blubber right next to the boat.…
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A Day on the Bay – 31/8/21
We started out at 9 am. a overcast calm day. We saw the tall male orca fins half mile out and found the male first and after awhile the female emerged from feeding. Another mile out we could see tons of spouts and knew we will see magic! We could see we are approaching a…