Howdy whalewatchers: Today was a wonderful first day and we hope for more to come. We had a good look at a masked booby (photo by Lee Morgan) at the south end of Todos Santos island along with elephant seals, harbor seals, and California sea lions. Shortly after leaving the island we were lucky to find a very large group of short-beaked common dolphins, we’re guessing there were around 700-800 animals. Then the fin whales! Five fin whales in a group and we were lucky to stay with three of them for some time and had really good looks. As we were headed to the fin whales there were four humpback whales, all withing a square mile of each other. One of the humpbacks breached wonderfully in front of us, surprising us nicely with his/her aerobatics. As the day went on we saw more fin whales, humpbacks and northbound gray whales. Tomorrow we will be at Islas San Benito.
Happy whalewatching and observing nature as it comes to you,
Capt aaron and the Searcher crew
