Underwater photo taken by passenger Hongming Zheng on our March 20th trip. The ocean that day was so calm the surface reflected the orca perfectly! Plus very blue water... a rare set up in the Channel Islands!! Awesome shot Mr. Zheng. March is usually our windiest month. However, if you live in southern California you might have noticed something unusual about March 2026. It was much warmer than normal, and with that brought weather conditions that allowed us to operate Kille

Photo by Capt. Ryan from our 2/28 Quest. February is the dead of winter and there are many Killer Whales around! It's just a question of whether we can GET to them. And this past month there was challenges surrounding that. To be honest, it was a bit demoralizing for both our crew and customers Feburary 2026. As you may know, our Quests are scheduled for every week Friday through Sunday. That gave us 12 scheduled Killer Whale trips for this month. How many of those were cance

The past month we have enjoyed incredibly stable weather which leant itself to off the charts Killer Whale encounters! Normally a winter month like January has several storm systems roll through and disrupt our schedule. But Jan 9th through 31st we didn't have to cancel a single trip due to weather. In that time span, we operated 16 quests and sighted Killer Whales on 15 of them! On one particular day, 40 Killer Whales were seen. You may be wondering... is this the peak? What

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...