Recent Sightings

Windy with considerable whitecaps today but visibility was quite good.

🟣 AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA:

🟩 11 northbound gray whales – three groups of two and five singles

🟩 77 harbor seals

🟩 approximately 35 brown pelicans flying north and 5 flying south

🟩 1 American kestrel

🟣 NO WHALES SEEN AT SAUNDERS REEF – stronger winds

🟣 TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE ⏬️

🔵 174 northbound          🔴   382 southbound          🟢  2 foragers

 

With significantly less wind and fewer whitecaps compared to the previous two days, blows were detectable as were heads, back, and flukes.

✅ AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA :

🔷 26 northbound gray whales – 15 singles, four groups of two’s and one loose group of three

🔷 67 harbor seals

🔷 2 black oystercatchers

🔷 51 brown pelicans flying north and 1 flying south

✅ TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE ➡️

🔵   163 northbound          🔴   382 southbound          🟢   2 foragers

High winds at the Point Arena Lighthouse peninsula created numerous whitecaps. Blows were batted down very quickly and whales were difficulty to follow in the rough sea.

💠 3 northbound gray whales – one deuce and one single

💠 17 harbor seals – outgoing tide

💠 3 brown pelicans flying south and 14 flying north

💠 1 great blue heron

🔶 NO WHALES  SEEN AT SAUNDERS REEF

🔶 TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE  🟰

🔵   137 northbound          🔴   382 southbound          🟢   2 foragers

 

Today was sunny and warm with a light wind. There were whitecaps starting at about 2 miles offshore and beyond that, there was haziness.

✳️ AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA:

🔆 11 northbound gray whales – one deuce and nine singles

🔆 59 harbor seals

🔆 35 brown pelicans flying north

✳️ AT GUALALA POINT:  OBSERVED BY SHARI GOFORTH

🔆 4 northbound gray whales – all singles

✳️ TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE  ↙️

🔵  134 northbound          🔴   382 southbound          🟢   2 foragers

After two days of very strong winds and a rough ocean that offered poor visibility, we were able to successfully observe today at the Point Arena Lighthouse peninsula as well as at Saunders Reef.  It was still quite windy and there were numerous whitecaps on the ocean as well as haziness. Spotting blows that disappeared very quickly was challenging.

☑️ AT PAL:

♦️ 5 northbound  gray whales : one deuce and three singles

♦️ 56 harbor seals

♦️ 1 American kestrel

♦️ 2 black oystercatchers

♦️1 great blue heron

♦️ 1 red-tailed hawk

♦️ 35 brown pelicans flying north

☑️ AT SAUNDERS REEF:

♦️ 1 northbound gray whale

♦️ 3 brown pelicans flying north

☑️  TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE  ⤵️

🔵   119 northbound           🔴   382 southbound          🟢   2 foragers