Howdy whalewatchers:, It started at daylight and it’s finishing with a red sunset–a great day! First pacific white-sided dolpins welcomed us to San Benito Island just before arriving and during the day, the island walkers encountered large amounts of Guadalupe fur seals (photo by Chris Shields), elephant seals and some more California sea lions. The ospreys were on the move today also–they seemed to be enjoying the lovely sun and calm weather too. Shortly after leaving the island we were in a zone with nine blue whales though they were a bit on the difficult side to observe since they were holding their breath for close to 20 minutes at a time. But with nine of them around, there always seemed to be one whale on the surface to see with your binoculars. After moving on, there were rafts of black-vented shearwaters. It had to come to a end sometime and that was with the red sky sunset. So we’re off and headed south to San Ignacio Lagoon.
Good whalewatching and observing nature as it comes to you.
Capt Aaron and the Searcher crew
