Hello! We’re enjoying this nice weather by the Channel Islands. We started east of Santa Cruz Island and followed the shelf edge. We had really good looks at long-tailed and pomarine jaegers, lots of common dolphin and a small group of bottlenose dolphin. There are also large numbers of red-necked phalaropes and black-vented shearwaters in this area.
p.s. Capt Aaron called the office shortly after sending this report. He was in an area of more than a dozen blue whales and they were lunge feeding all around the boat! Needless to say, he was pretty excited and wanted us to add it to the mid-day report! Many thanks to Rob Nawojchik for the use of these blue whale photos!