Location: Monterey Bay
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Baird’s Beaked Whales in Monterey – 5/23
So we went on a whale watching trip out of Monterey and it began, like most trips in Monterey Bay does, with sightings of sea otters, cormorants and sea lions in the harbor, but we did make a quick detour to see a red footed booby that’s been hanging around the harbor on a person’s…
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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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A Unique Humpback Encounter – 10/15/19
I was out on a whale watch tour with Blue Ocean Whale Watching in Moss Landing, CA. We were watching two humpback whales who were lazily swimming along when all of a sudden, both whales simultaneously breached. They continued breaching multiple times and we noticed that in the distance, several other humpback whales within a…
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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…