Location: Monterey Bay
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A Triple Breach! – 27/10/25
Three Humpback whales in the Monterey Bay named CRC-12422 “Checkmarks” & her calf “Chex Mix” with a third unknown adult humpback were seen breaching, tail slapping and tail throwing for several minutes. Suddenly the two adult whales breached simultaneously not once but twice. Then the calf Chex Mix followed, coming high up out of the…
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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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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…