Hello whalewatchers,
Our weather is what we dream about for all our trips–glassy calm and no swell! This morning e started with a skiff ride at Punta Colorado on Isla San Jose. Then we went ashore for a couple of hours and a snorkel session. Everyone enjoyed the morning and then we went offshore looking for whales.
We hit the jackpot on blue whales with at least eight different whales with a cow and calf pair. Five out of the eight whales were fluking which is rare. We hope to get one “fluker” per trip and today there was flukes everywhere!. We saw at least five dwarf sperm whales, maybe more.
For the birders we saw 28 Craveri’s murrelets, over 100 black storm-petrels and at least five long-tailed jaegers. A great afternoon for birds as well!
Headed to Isla Santa Catalina tonight.
More tomorrow,
Capt Art
p.s. Thank you to Ilka Serpell for the image of Searcher at Punta Colorada!
