Dear whalewatchers:
After a calm night of travel, we arrived at Islas San Benito this morning. Before getting to the island, we had good views of black-footed albatrosses and a cow-calf pair of humpbacks. Our group had a wonderful walk around the island to spend time with elephant seals (returning, molting sub-adults and weaners) and Guadalupe fur seals. The number of fur seals has certainly increased over the season. The plants were very interesting, and the ground-nesting bird burrows were abundant and active. We also saw osprey, one with two large chicks, and side-blotched lizards. We left the island under calm seas and spotted our first herd of long-beaked common dolphin around the boat in clear blue water.
We are looking forward to our visit to Laguna San Ignacio tomorrow,
Team Searcher
