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.
Black-vented shearwater, thanks to Tom Blackman
We are going up by San Miguel Island this afternoon, hoping to see some more wildlife.
Capt Aaron and Team Searcher
Blue whale fluking
Surfacing blue whale and open blowhole
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!
