2016 06-10 SB Channel Captain Dave and his crew started today’s excursion on a southwesterly heading.  Before reaching the mid-Channel...

2016 06-06 SB Channel It was not foggy.  The ocean surface was glassy most of the day.  The sun kind of shined through the stratus out in...

2016 05-27 SB Channel Mirror glassy morning with warm sunshine and only a slight breeze in the afternoon gave us perfect conditions for...

2016 05-24 SB Channel Today was an unusually wonderful weather day on the Santa Barbara Channel.  It was moderately windy with small...

2016 05-22 SB Channel Captain Eric and his crew took the Condor Express up and down the coast today and was able to locate the cetaceans...

2016 05-19 SB Channel The fog lifted when we were on the north side of the Lanes and had to slow down to see all the wildlife in the...

2016 05-18 SB Channel It was a silver day in the Santa Barbara Channel due to the May/June coastal stratus layer.  But there was hardly...

2016 05-17 SB Channel It was a thick overcast marine layer today which produced a few isolated spots of filtered sunshine on the ocean...

2016 04-27 SB Coast Captain Dave ran two excursions along the Santa Barbara coast today.  Conditions were a bit bumpy at first from...

2016 04-26 SB Coast Oh, my.  Sometimes the marine weatherperson gets it wrong.  Today was supposed to start out breezy then morph into...

2016 04-11 SB Channel Only one excursion left the docks today (at noon) but it was epic.  Captain Eric, along with his “eyes and ears”...

2016 04-10 SB Channel There was a gap between storms today and the ocean surface was mirror glass.  Skies were sunny and clear.  Marine...

2016 04-09 SB Channel The Flats.  Springtime.  Something magical happens every year to generate large masses of northern anchovies. ...

2016 04-12 SB Channel Captain Dave and his team ran all three whale watching excursions today under sunny skies and with calm seas and...

2016 03-30 SB Channel Three excursions left the dock today in search of wildlife in the Santa Barbara Channel.   Captain Eric drove the...

2016 03-27 SB Channel Two excursions left the docks today, the 12 noon and the 3 pm afternoon trips.  Conditions were good, you might say...

2016 03-25 SB Channel Another super warm sunny, summer-like day with light winds.  There was a moderate bump due to winds in the far...

2016 03-22 SB Channel We ran a single excursion at 9am with high winds and moderate chop.  2 gray whales and 10 Pacific white-sided...

2016 03-18 SB Channel Captain Dave and his crew ran three 2½-hour excursions today.  Total cetacean sightings today included 8 gray...

2016 03-17 SB Channel Stunning summer conditions with cetaceans everywhere. Totals for the whole day are: gray whales=4; humpback whales...