Notable Photo by Chef Charles
Here’s a great shot of a gulping whale and seabird with the bait fish flying!
Incredible blue whale encounter
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Baja’s manta rays
Manta ray
Photo by Charles Howell
What Chefs Charles and Steve see out their window while cooking in Baja (Click More button)
Photo by Charles Howell
A good-lookin’ bunch of whalewatchers!
Photo courtesy of Michael Ellis, Footloose Forays
Rare dwarf sperm whale cow/calf photo
Conditions were just right for a great shot of the surfacing dwarf sperm whales. Congrats to Chef Charles Howell for capturing this elusive cetacean! (Editor’s note: It takes boat-handling skill by Capt Art too!)
This just in!
Capt Art just texted this photo of a gray whale (one of numerous whales!) right next to Searcher at anchor in Laguna San Ignacio. (Click the MORE button)
Bryde’s whale breach photo!
Searcher passenger, Myer Bornstein, snapped this amazing shot of a rarely seen behavior–a Bryde’s whale breach. And it was a calf, no less. Thanks Myer!
© Myer Bornstein
Life Aboard a Pelagic Birding Tour
Watching for birds from the upper deck
Reviewing an identification
A camera always focused for the next rarity
And sometimes they even take a quick break for food or drink inside!
Baja Birding Trip: Day 4
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
