2015 09-30 SB Channel Four Humpback Whales Including a Mother and Calf September goes out with a big bang. Like yesterday, only worse,...

2015 08-31 SB Channel Although the marine forecast was a bit dicey, in truth things were moderate at the start and just kept improving....

2015 SB Channel – ACS When you see the numbers of cetaceans sighted today, please remember that this was an 8-hour trip, almost double...

2015 08-15 SB Channel Captain Eric had to work for it today. Moderately high seas, strong winds and currents made it hard to move around...

2015 08-14 SB Channel Keen-eyed Augie and master boat-handler Captain Dave turned a potential Mr. Toad’s wild ride into an epic humpback...

2015 08-02 SB Channel Today was a carbon copy of yesterday with more humpback whales (10+), less common dolphins (400), and a light chop...

HERE WE SEE ONE OF A TRIO OF HUMPBACK WHALES THAT HAD A GREAT TIME MAKING SALAD SHREDS OUT OF WHAT STARTED OUT AS A LARGE DRIFTING GIANT...

2015 07-29 SB Channel East After leaving Santa Barbara at 10am we stopped at 1045am about 10 miles south of the Harbor for a nice pod of...

2015 07-28 SB Channel East The following raw numbers do not tell the whole story. Humpbacks = 4 Blue whale = 1 Minke whales = 2 ...

2015 07-27 SB Channel This was an afternoon trip and upon departing the dock at 100pm there was a moderate breeze from the west, so...

2015 07-25 SB Channel Captain Eric and the crew fired up a whole bunch of cool cetacean sightings on today’s excursion.   500 long-beaked...

2015 07-14 SB Channel We left Santa Barbara Harbor with patchy fog and a very light breeze, and we ran southwest. Not too far off Campus...

2015 07-11 SB Channel The crew of the Condor Express, under the command of Captain Eric, closely watched at least a dozen humpback whales...

2015 07-09 SB Channel Seventeen humpback whales and at least 2,000 long-beaked common dolphins were closely watched on our excursion....

2015 07-07 SB Channel Not too far out from Santa Barbara Harbor ol’ eagle-eyes Augie spotted a nice ocean sunfish (Mola mola) which we...

2015 07-06 SB Channel First let me give you the total picture of today’s excursion: We closely watched 17 humpback whales (with at least...

HUMPBACK WHALE TAIL THROW ! 2015 06-29-SB Channel A trip out to see the blue whales was not to be as seas in the western zone of the...

2015 06-28 SB Channel Winds outside precluded the south side of the Santa Barbara Channel, but the north half was quite doable.   There...

South of the rig line there were several bait ball hot spots with the usual suspects dining on the anchovy cuisine.   The humpback whales...

2015 06-21 SB Channel Captain Dave ran into the middle of the Santa Barbara Channel and found a “mother lode” of at least 20 giant...