Conditions today were cloudy, the ocean was fairly calm and visibility was very good.

🔶 AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA:

🔷 NO WHALES SEEN

🔷 97 harbor seals

🔷 1 sea lion

🔷 1 great blue heron

🔷 22 brown pelicans

🔶TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE  ↙️

  344 northbound – includes 7 mother/calf pairs

  382 southbound

 18 foragers

On this breezy, partly sunny day, we had decent visibility to about 3 miles offshore.

💠 AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA:

♦️ NO WHALES SEEN

♦️ 75 harbor seals

♦️ 17 brown pelicans

♦️ 3 black oystercatchers

💠 AT SAUNDERS REEF:

♦️ NO WHALES SEEN

REEF

TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE  🟰

  344 northbound – includes 7 mother/calf pairs

  382 southbound

 18 foragers

Today we had a hazy, overcast sky. Poor visibility due to having no distinction between the ocean and the sky and whale blows.

❇️ AT THE POINT ARENA LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA :

🔆 NO WHALES SEEN

🔆 53 harbor seals – incoming tide

🔆 1 osprey perched in a tree overlooking the ocean

🔆 23 brown pelicans

❇️ AT SAUNDERS REEF:

🔆 NO WHALES SEEN

🔆 8 brown pelicans

🔆 1 red-tailed hawk

❇️ TOTAL GRAY WHALES SEEN TO DATE  

  344 northbound – includes 7 mother/calf pairs

  382 southbound

 18 foragers

 

Sounding the Alarm for North Pacific Grey Whales | MERS Marine Education & Research Society

EVENT:

On May 15, the 21st dead gray whale washed ashore in Washington state. We highly recommend attending the webinar below to learn more about why this is happening. You can take a look at Cascadia Research Collective’s working list of stranded gray whales here: https://cascadiaresearch.org/working-list-of-gray-whale-strandings-in-2026/

Please visit the website below to register for this event:

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