February 23
Dear whalewatchers:
What an awesome day in the Sea of Cortez today. We started with a walk around Bahia Agua Verde. The birders picked out four endemic Xantus’ hummingbirds, always a treat to see on the peninsula.
We left around lunchtime and kept tracking north where we saw our first blue whale about 5 miles away. We started seeing more spouts the further up we went we stayed with a single blue whale, which we followed for the better part of a hour.
Captain Ryan spotted some activity closer to the peninsula which looked like pair of blue whales together. We got closer and we realized we were in for a treat. We watched three blue whales lunge feeding around the boat for two or three hours until the sun went down. We think we saw somewhere between 6 and 10 blue whales today.
We’re anchored for dinner and going to head south for Punta Colorado tomorrow on Isla San Jose.
Captain Mike and the boys
