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DAILY SIGHTINGS
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The whale with half a tail | 1+ blue whales, 3,000 common dolphins
A slight bump on the water and winds in the low teens greeted us in the channel, but didn’t slow us down! Our first sighting of the day...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 19, 20241 min read
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Blue Whale Mania Continues! | 13+ Blue Whales, 1,000 common dolphins
Another beautiful day with gorgeous sea conditions and plenty of blue whales. We ran to the same area that has been hot with blue whales...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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~20 Blue whales + a LUNGEFEEDING FIN Whale! | 20 Blue Whales, 4 fin whales
Just about as good as it gets today with whales as far as the eye can see! Conditions were perfect as the sea was flat and the ocean was...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 13, 20241 min read
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BLUE WHALE BONANZA | 20-40 BLUE WHALES
An unfathomable amount of marine life has found itself nestled in the Santa Barbara channel. Our excursion spent the day surrounded by...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 11, 20241 min read
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BLUE WHALE MANIA! | 12+ Blue Whales, 2 Fin whales, 4+ humpbacks, 500 common dolphins
Just about as good as it gets today with an endless amount of whales! There was a light breeze and a small bump on the ocean today, but...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 9, 20242 min read
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KILLER WHALES! | 13 Killer Whales, 1,000 dolphins
It was a KILLER day in the channel with multiple matrilines of killer whales. From large adult males to small calves, we enjoyed spending...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 7, 20242 min read
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Another Banger! | 7+ Humpback whales, 2 blue whales, 3,000 common dolphins
Another day with spectacular sea conditions allowed us to find all the wildlife we could've hoped for! Out of the harbor and into the...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 5, 20242 min read
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Another Gorgeous day at Sea | 1 Blue Whale, 1 Humpback whale, 500 Common dolphins, 1 Mola mola
The glassiest seas imaginable today greeted us from start to finish. Here's how the day went. A large group of about 500 common dolphins...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 4, 20241 min read
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The Santa Barbara GRAND SLAM! | 5+ Blue Whales, 2+ Humpbacks, 1 Fin whale, 1 Gray Whale, 50 Commons
It was an absolutely perfect day in the Santa Barbara Channel, complete with the SB GRAND SLAM! FOUR baleen whale species + common...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 3, 20241 min read
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EPIC numbers of whales! | 20+ Humpbacks, 3+ Blues
An incredible day at sea, June started off with an absolute bang! We found ourselves surrounded by whales. It was hard to keep track of...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
Jun 1, 20241 min read
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Whales EVERYWHERE! | 15+ Humpbacks
Sea conditions were astonishingly flat which allowed us to find the humpback honey hole. Our first whale was one we spent with yesterday....

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 31, 20241 min read
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WHALE TRIFECTA?! ...Almost | 5+ Humpbacks, 2 Fin Whales, 1 Blue Whale*, 30 Commons, 2 Bottlenose
FIVE Cetacean species were present in the channel today. With beautifully flat sea conditions we could use the boat's speed to track down...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 30, 20242 min read
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Dreams Abroad Article on SBWW
Checkout the awesome article written about our crew and company by the Dreams Abroad team! https://www.dreamsabroad.com/meet-adam-and-dev...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 28, 20241 min read
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3 MIGHTY BLUE WHALES | 3 Blue Whales, 250 Common dolphins
We spent a spectacular Memorial Day at sea with the world's largest inhabitants! A report from our friend Holly Lohuis aboard Island...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 27, 20241 min read
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A blue, a fin, and an entangled Fur Seal | 1 Blue Whale, 1 Fin whale, 1,500 common dolphins, 1 free Fur Seal
It was a beautiful day in the channel, a great break for our typical May Gray with sunny skies and a small bump on the sea surface. We...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 26, 20241 min read
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3 Humpbacks off Santa Rosa Island
Another nice day with humpback whales off of Santa Rosa Island! We first came across a young juvenile whale. It showed us its tail while...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 19, 20241 min read
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2+ Humpbacks and a Mighty Blue Whale
Another gorgeous day in the channel led us to a couple of giant beauties. Our first encounter of the day was with a cow/ calf pair of...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 18, 20241 min read
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A nice day with Humpback whales | 2 Humpbacks, 20 Bottlenose dolphin
Gray skies continued today as we traversed the Santa Barbara Channel. We trekked towards the same feeding ground where the whales had...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 15, 20241 min read
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A Mighty Blue Whale | 1 Blue Whale, 2 Humpback whales, 250 Commons
Another May gray kind of day with great sightings! Our same active feeding spot was alive today with whales and dolphins. Our first...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 15, 20241 min read
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2 Blue Beauties and more! | 2 Blue Whales, 4+ Humpback whales, 500 commons
May Gray again today with beautiful sea conditions allowed us to search the channel at high speeds. We ventured to the same feeding spot...

Santa Barbara Whale Watch
May 13, 20241 min read
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