A few Sea Cave Kayak Tour and Whale Watching Kayak Tour updates for the month of February:
- Our Sea Caves Kayak Tours have encountered plenty of sea lion playing and feeding along the 7 caves and around the kelp forest.
- We've spotted a mother gray whale with her juvenile calf just outside the kelp forest.
- It's Harbor Seal pupping season! Harbor seals with their newborn pups lounge along Children's Pool, napping and taking in the sunshine.
- We've spotted 3 double crested cormorants, which is atypical to the usual brandt's cormorants that we see on the cliffs nearly year round.
- Squat lobster (tuna crabs) on the rocks and shore.
- On our kayak whale watching tours we've seen record breaking gray whale numbers. On one tour alone, we counted 22 whales!
- we've also encountered super pods of pacific white sided dolphin-one tour guide estimated 300+
- we've seen numerous spouts and flukes...and a total of 8 breaches.
- a pod of common dolphin swam around our kayaks just outside the kelp forest.
- as always, sea lion playing and feeding nearby.
- randomly spotted 2 leopard sharks heading in from our whale watch (unusual for this time of year)
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| Feb. 25th, 2015 from above Scripps Institute of Oceanography |
