2016 02-07 SB Channel Captain Eric and the crew had a nice day with good, sunny and warm conditions in the Santa Barbara Channel today....

2016 01-27 SB Channel Captain Dave and the crew of the Condor Express found perfectly glassy sea conditions with a high overcast sky as...

2016 01-24 SB Channel The rainstorm that left us high and dry yesterday brought the usual windy after effects today. The Santa Barbara...

2016 01-22 SB Channel Captain Eric steered a course for the west end of Santa Cruz Island, a southwesterly heading from Santa Barbara....

2016 01-17 SB Channel A long-period ground swell generated some medium-sized waves and backwash along the edge of the Breakwater as we...

2016 01-16 SB Channel Captain Eric and the crew of the Condor Express took a southwesterly course out of Santa Barbara Harbor on very...

2016 01-15 SB Channel OMG! A megapod of gray whales! There was a pretty fresh breeze blowing from the western Santa Barbara Channel and...

2016 01-10 SB Channel Captain Eric and the crew of the Condor Express cleared the breakwater and entered the open ocean at 1020 am.  ...

Regular readers of our sightings reports may be wondering why there has been a lack of posts so far in 2016.  The new year has begun with...

2016 01-01 SB Channel Happy New Year ! Sunny skies and humpback whales prevailed in our zone of the Santa Barbara Channel today. It was a...

2015 12-31 SB Channel A gorgeous New Year’s Eve in the “gap” (aka, Santa Cruz Channel…between Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Island). Captain...

2015 12-28 SB Channel A truly exhilarating experience and cetacean watching extraordinaire. Back from the snowy slopes of Colorado,...

2015 12-27 SB Channel Oh, what a wonderful day it was as we crossed the Santa Barbara Channel and ended up in the Santa Cruz Channel (the...

2015 12-26 SB Channel After a week or so of storms that hit northern and central California which sent high winds and rough seas into the...

Two Gray Whales Captain Eric found gray whales again today as he took the Condor Express from across the 50-fathom line then down east.  ...

2015 12-19 SB Channel The rain came swooping in from the northwest towards the end of the trip today, otherwise it did start out sunny...

2015 12-17 SB Channel El capitán and el águila put their collective four sharp eyes together and found a southbound migrating gray whale,...

2015 12-13 SB Channel It was do-able conditions as we pulled out of Santa Barbara Harbor this morning with a cheerful load of happy whale...

2015 12-05 SB Channel A Killer Day It was a nice wintry day in our swath of the Santa Barbara Channel. A warm but filtered sun shone...

2015 11-28 SB Channel Captain Dave and his renowned crew set a southwesterly course out of Santa Barbara today and encountered a little...