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A Special Whale Watching Trip to the Gulf of the Farallones – 13/10/19
This trip was for a marine biology case study class I’m taking for my Masters program at the Estuary and Ocean Science Center at SF State. We arrived in Sausalito around sunrise to board the Salty Lady and head out into the Gulf of the Farallones. We spotted some Harbor Porpoises and bird activity in…
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Active Humpbacks in San Francisco – 16/8/19
On our first trip of the day we headed far out west, past the shipping lane. We ended up about 15 miles offshore. There we found five humpbacks feeding in 150 feet of water. The water color was a dark purple-brown color, suggesting that the whales might have been feeding on krill. We saw lots…
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A Foggy Day with Whales – 9/11/19
On this trip we headed out on a very foggy day into the Gulf of the Farallones to search for whales. The fog was thick and visibility was severely limited. On our way out, we found a large group of birds near the shipping lane, but no whales. When we got out to the end…
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Another Amazing Trip to the Broughton Archipelago – 10/18
What an epic crew trip this year in the Broughton! Three full days on the water and each day being so different and amazing in different ways. One day, we went over the top of Vancouver Island and got into some ground swell where we found the T55’s and the rarely seen T140’s. Some really…
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Lunging Humpbacks! – 30/9/18
Monterey Bay has plenty of nutritious eats for these humpbacks, and that was certainly the case today! The individuals pictured and a few others were working as a group to get lunch. This group of humpbacks would drive their food up to the surface and lunge up out of the water. With mouths wide open,…