[CINC] Island Adventure Friday Sept 18th to Santa Rosa

[bill weinerth]

Fog the entire day.

Three Blue Whales - cow calf pair and another adult.

Three pods of common dolphins.

Sixteen day visitors and forty plus campers.

 

We started out in dense fog, radar going, fog horn sounding, headed for San Pedro Point on SCI.  Captain Lee was taking his time to be safe.  We got beyond Platform Gail and into the north bound shipping lane where the Islander was stopped with the cow calf pair of Blues.  They looked to be closer than fifty feet to their bow!

Islander was finally able to move off the whales and we moved in but never got real close.  Still we got good sitings and the strong smell of whale breath.

 

We continued to SCI and up the back side.  We did stop at Gull Island to off-load a passenger.  This passenger was a rehabilated Guadalupe Fur Seal pup which wondered into the San Pedro Harbor some months ago.  She is about six months old now and on her own.  Good luck to her.

 

Skiffing to the island at Water Canyon was mostly dry - Thanks to Alex, Dave and the rest of the IPCO staff.

Eight of the day hikers did the Torrey Pines loop.  We made it back just in time to keep the departure on schedule.  There was a hugh west swell hitting the north side of SCI so Painted Cave looked to be out.  But Capt Lee found a way to get the Is Ad well into the cave to the delight of all aboard.

 
 		 	   		  
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