2015 07-20 SB Channel Captain Dave and the crew racked-up a nice mix of both the abundance and diversity of cetaceans today with a total...

2015 07-16 SB Channel Today’s trip tally came in at 9 humpback whales and 2000 long-beaked common dolphins, however the numbers to not...

2015 07-10 SB Channel Another mega-cetacean day for the Condor Express as we closely watched 19 humpback whales and at least 3,000...

2015 06-25 SB Channel NOTE: “Gluttony” may be a bit anthropomorphic, but it helps me relate to you the spectacular humpback whale feeding...

2015 06-17 SB Channel Another mega day for humpback whales and common dolphins. After leaving the sea lions on the Santa Barbara...

Captain Dave and the crew of the Condor Express ran into their first large feeding aggregation of #whales and #dolphins out past the oil...

2015 06-09 SB Channel It rained all day today from light rain to moderately heavy (big drops) rain.   A day for only the most hearty...

A CLOSE LOOK AT THE PROPELLER SCAR AND GLOBULAR NODULES WHICH HELP US IDENTIFY OUR FRIEND, THE HUMPBACK “SCARLET.” SCARLET DID A BIT OF...

2015 05-21 SB Channel Captain Eric ran the show today and what a show it was…thanks, in part, to the keen whale-eyes of deckhand Augie....

2015 05-20 SB Channel Our first sighting of the excursion came along quite soon after Captain Eric took the Condor Express out of Santa...

2015 05-19 SB Channel Captain Dave headed out into the Santa Barbara Channel in search of #whales and #dolphins today. Near More Mesa he...

2015 05-18 SB Channel About 3 miles or so north of the commercial shipping lanes we encountered the first of our two “hot spots” with...

2015 05-17 SB Channel Captain Eric steered the Condor Express into humpback whale land again today, but under much better sea conditions...

2015 05-15 SB Channel Captain Dave ran one of those “see it all” classic whale watch excursions today with a new technological twist that...

A MEDIUM SIZED OCEAN SUNFISH TAKES A GOOD LOOK AT THE WHALE WATCHERS ON BOARD THE CONDOR EXPRESS TODAY. 2015 05-13 SB Channel Off we went...

2015 05-12 SB Channel Hooray! It was our first official trip of the “Island Whale Watch” season for 2015 and it was sensational. Captain...

TWO GRAY WHALE MOTHERS AND THEIR CALVES STOP IN SHALLOW WATER FOR WHAT WE ARE GUESSING IS A NURSING STATION. 2015 05-08 SB Coast Captain...

A LITTLE GRAY WHALE CALF POKES ITS HEAD UP TO SPOUT AS IT TRAVELS SAFELY ALONGSIDE ITS MOTHER IN THE GLORIOUS BRIGHT SANTA BARBARA SUN...

2015 04-27 SB Coast Captain Eric and Augie put their best four combined eyes on the job today and their sightings added to an already...

2015 04-22 SB Coast It was a day with a glassy calm ocean surface and partly sunny skies. Captain Dave commanded two excursions out of...