Recent Sightings

Same offshore fog persisted at the Point Arena Lighthouse peninsula limiting our visibility to between 2-3 mikes out.

🟣 NO WHALES SEEN

🟣 92 harbor seals

🟣 1 great blue heron

🟣 11 brown pelicans

 

There was offshore fog today limiting our visibility to between 2 -3 miles off the peninsula at the Point Arena Lighthouse peninsula.

✳️ NO WHALES SEEN

✳️ 94 harbor seals

✳️ 1 sea lion resting on his or her own rock by the harbor seal haul out site

✳️ 1 great blue heron

✳️ 14 brown pelicans

 

 

Observations today from the Point Arena Lighthouse peninsula.  Offshore fog, some wind and whitecaps.

💠 NO WHALES SEEN

💠 118 harbor seals

💠 2 great blue herons

💠 9 brown pelicans

The day at Gerstle Cove began sunny, with moderate wind and moderate amount of whitecaps on a choppy ocean. Visibility was very good.  As the day progressed, it became cloudy and the wind diminished.

🔷 8 humpback whales – 6 singles and 1 deuce

🔷 11 harbor seals

🔷 2 osprey- one carrying a fish

🔷 49 brown pelicans all flying south

🔷 1 Caspian tern

 

This season’s counts were the lowest for both northbound and southbound in our thirteen years of doing this census. They were slightly lower than last season.

SOUTHBOUND:

December, 2025:    40

January, 2026:        315

February, 2026:      27

TOTAL:                     382

NORTHBOUND:

February, 2026:        65

March, 2026:            234 – includes one mother/calf pair

April, 2026:               45 –  includes six mother/calf pairs

May, 2026:                   0

TOTAL:                     344 – includes 7 mother/calf pairs