Many folks are inquiring.... "What about trips during the Christmas Season?!" In years past, we have operated Killer Whale Quests with good success in the time immediatley before and after Christmas. This year, we do not have any trips on our calendar in the time frame. The reason why is that our schedule in Newport Beach is very much full, day and night, for 2 hour trips during this time. If we have Oxnard commitments on top of this, it's a big stressor to our scheduling. On

8 Killer Whales

11+ Killer Whales CA216Bs, CA45s, CA46D,  CA122Bs

22 Killer Whales!   CA23A1s/A2/A3, CA27As, CA39s, CA40/CA137, CA58B, CA122As, CA122Cs, CA216Cs

14 Killer Whales CA39As, CA122Bs, CA58A, CA27As, CA216Cs!

10 Killer Whales, 10 Humpback Whales, 4,000 Common Dolphins Capt. Ryan's VLOG about the whole day can be seen here:...

20+ Humpback Whales, 4,000 Common Dolphins

6 Killer Whales, 6 Humpback Whales, 3,000 Common Dolphin The CA27Ds and CA27E family of Orca killed a common dolphin right in front of...

7 Killer Whales, 5 Humpback Whales Wow, we felt so lucky to find the CA51A family of Killer Whales not too far from the harbor! We...

1 Blue Whale, 5 Humpback Whales, 50 Risso's Dolphins, 30 Bottlenose Dolphins, 100 Common Dolphins

This past Friday and Saturday, August 15th and 16th we operated two 8 hour whale watching trips in the Santa Barbara Channel. The goal...

9 Humpback Whales, 2,000 Common Dolphin

8 Humpback Whales, 3,000 Common Dolphins

Thank you to all our customers, new and repeats who made this season possible. Orcas are both the apex predators and the apex of whale...

1 Gray Whale, 200 Common Dolphins

6 Killer Whales We saw the CA27Es and CA49Cs hunt a sea lion! Photo by Capt. Ryan

2 Killer Whales, 200 Northern Right Whale Dolphins, 300 Pacific Whitesided Dolphins

4 Killer Whales of the CA39A family

12 Killer Whales, 30 Pacific Whitesided Dophins, 20 Northern Right Whale Dolphins We had the CA138s and CA39As again, along with a single...

11 Killer Whales from the CA138 and CA39As families! Photo taken by our passenger Michelle @michellee am

14 Humpback Whales, 5,000 Common Dolphin Once again we saw many humpback whales, including a baby jumping and adults tail slapping. Photo...

25 Humpback Whales, 3,000 Common Dolphins, 20 Bottlenose Dolphins It was a fantastic day, with lunge feeding, chin slapping, and a...

7 Killer Whales, 15 Humpback Whales, 2000 Common Dolphins, 3 Dall's Porpoise We saw the CA138 family of Killer Whales, the 7th time this...

16 Killer Whales, 10+ Humpback Whales, 20 Risso's Dolphins We had a Killer Whale Party, consisting of CA199, the CA216Bs, the CA138s and...