Location: Santa Barbara Channel
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A Breaching Minke Whale – 06/90
It was kind of off season for sightings but we went out anyway. June of 1990 off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA, we headed out to the Channel Islands. We saw plenty of porpoise and sealions. Anchoring near the island, we took turns on a skiff to enter a sealion cave. A diver went…
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Flue: The Hybrid Whale – 23/7/20
On Thursday, July 23, 2020, my husband and I went on a whale watching excursion with Island Packers in Ventura to explore the wildlife in the waters off Channel Islands National Park. Captain Joel explored the Santa Barbara channel and found a wealth of marine life, including Common and Bottlenose Dolphin, Minke Whales and several…