There we found a beautiful big school of mobulas, stationary, and spent about an hour snorkeling with them before coming back for a hot breakfast. Seems like more mobulas in Los Suenos than La Ventana at the moment. Just after we got the guests back on board, Katie and Scarlett in the Scout spotted a blue whale and we headed out in that direction.
Read Moreotted a humpback whale, fin whale, and a whale shark on the west side of Espiritu Santo, the same spot that we have been founding whales this trip, it has been a great spot the entire week, in our way we saw a fin whale but our goal was to see the whale shark,
Read Morewith any number of them. The first one we chose was the closest to the boat and it was stationary and consisted of probably a few hundred mobulas, often crossing paths with other schools in the area.
Read MoreEverything has been incredible: the entire journey, the boat, the crew. The wildlife is incredible, in half of the trip we already have seen dolphins, orcas, blue whales, Bryde’s whales, fin whales, mobulas, hammerhead sharks, sea lions, gulls, pelicans, masked boobies, skuas, frigates and it’s only day 3!
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We were fortunate enough this first week to find whales pretty much every day: pairs of mother and calves of humpbacks breaching out and playing, blue whales, fin whales, and even a gray whale! Aside from these, we were surprised to have found a couple of pregnant whale sharks as well! Pods of dolphins and mobulas aggregations are in our daily sightings.
Read MoreWe started the day down near La Ventana, well clear of the strong Coromuel winds that have been blowing lately. Headed out at 0730 to look for mobulas and found a school of a few hundred just off Punta Gorda.
Read MoreYet another amazing day we had today. After having seen so many different kinds of animals on this trip I thought we would be running out of things to amaze our guests. I was wrong.
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