Dolphin Time!!

Whale watching is prevalent along the west coast. SoCal is lucky to be on the migration route for both the Grey Whale, and the Blue Whale, the world's largest mammal. There are several companies which you can take these trips with, but the ones I have been out with is Dana Wharf Whale Watching.

I have now been out on four whale watching trips from Dana Point. It is such a good experience that I try to take anyone who comes out to visit me. Although you are not always guaranteed to see whales, this was the first trip where I didn't see one of the big guys. However, the trip was amazing as the sheer number of dolphins that we saw instead more than made up for it.

On this particular trip we saw two types of dolphin, the Common, and the Bottlenose. The Common were in a greater number and liked swimming right up close and personal to the boat. The captain had said that if you could see about 20 of them, then the pod was probably around 200!

The Bottlenose loved to play in the wake of the boat, and we sped up to give them some good waves to play with. I am not going to pretend to be an expert on these beautiful creatures. So instead I will just share with you the best of the photographs that I managed to take - there were many, and most of them of plain still water where I had totally missed them! But don't worry - I haven't included them in here :)