Last week I went whale watching off the coast of Dana Point. I didn't see any of the fabled killer whales that are supposedly puttering around right now, but we did see some gray whales. The good news is that this was an early sighting and it was a pod of three, so I was fortunate. The bad news is there was no frolicking or leaping about, so I didn't see much aside from a few humps in the water.
But you get to see it anyway! From the top: all three whales surfacing briefly; one of the whales spouting; a whale of a tail.
We go to Maui in the winter fairly frequently. The humpbacks are usually pretty frolicky throughout the winter months when they're in Hawaii. Usually gets lot of diving flukes, but catching breeches in camera is a lot of luck along with fast reflexes and good peripheral vision.
I was stationed in a patrol cutter moored at Kauai. We cruised all the main islands regularly. Transiting west from Maui back to O'ahu, Mom and calf humpback surfaced right off our bow while we were between the 'Au'au and Kalohi channels. Crash stop. We avoided them but knocked our mains off line in 10-12 foot swells and 25-30 knots of breeze. It was a bit...active, like a carnival ride until we got under way again. Fun times!
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Gray whales don't breach as often as some other whales, especially humpback whales. Killer whales get a lot of PR, but compared to many other species, they're not seen all that frequently off the California coast (although I guess there have been more than average this season). On ~40 pelagic trips over the years, I think I've seen blue whales more times than killer whales.
Many years ago, sometime in the late 1980s, my wife and I were at Point Reyes Lighthouse on a cold, gray fall day. It's a long, steep walk down to the lighthouse itself, so not that many people do it, especially on a day like that one. So we were a bit surprised to see two other people there when we arrived, a woman and her teenage son, I think. Anyway, we said hello, but that was the extent of the conversation. We proceeded to scan the ocean. We were looking for tubenoses (which we found), but it was also the peak of the gray whale southward migration, and while they weren't breaching, you could see them surfacing and spouting a couple of times a minute as they swam by.
After about fifteen minutes, the woman sighed in apparent disgust and turned to her son: "I don't see any whales!" The two then took off up the stairway before we could say anything.
Glad you were out and about Kevin. Whale watching is rather like a miracle. Unfortunately, animals in the wild do not perform on demand. You did see them roll and blow and that is great.
great photos, nice to see the sailboat in one