Location: Angel Island
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Grey Whales and Porpoises – 12/4/18
This trip had beautiful warm weather. We quickly spotted a spout southeast of Angel Island and another spout further towards the Golden Gate Bridge. We identified them as gray whales. We moved to the west side of Angel Island, where we watched one of the grays spout without fluking. At one point the gray came…
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Close Encounter with a Grey Whale – 24/4/18
It was a foggy and cold morning as we set out across the bay in search of whales. We heard a report of one in the central bay, so we traveled slowly through in hopes of spotting it. With no spouts, we made our way around Angel Island. We ended up finding the whale near…
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Feeding Porpoises – 5/2/21
We headed out on a sunny February afternoon with Modern Sailing School. In our first leg between Angel Island and Alcatraz, we spotted some seabirds and some California sea lions resting on the shipping lane buoys. As we headed behind Angel Island towards Raccoon Strait, there were plenty of porpoises feeding in the calm waters.…