Hello,
Today we are further offshore with hopes of some Cooks petrels. We still have incredible weather with no wind and not much swell.
It was a little slow on the birds today, though we saw plenty of black and leaches storm petrels and just a few black-footed and Laysan albatross. We did see a family of Xantus murrelets with two adults and two chicks.
An exciting sighting was a group of blue whales with a fin whale with them. We were able to get close enough to the fin whale to see its white lower jaw on the right side. We saw 10 or 12 blue whales in the afternoon and a couple of other fin whales.

Surfacing blue whale, photo by Sally Walton

All in all, a great day with plenty to see. We are headed for the area south and west of the Islas Coronados.
Looking forward to tomorrow,
Capt Art