Monterey Whale Watching

So last weekend we decided to go down to Monterey to do a little whale watching. Every year at this time the 20,000 or so Grey Whales pass by Monterey on their migration down from their feeding grounds in Alaska to Baja where they hang out for the winter. I think this is the third time Lindsey and I have gone and the first time for the Monkey. It was a beautiful day probably mid 60s or so and the seas were pretty flat, which made for great whale watching weather.

 

Meme and Poppy on the boat

 

Oliver looking for whales

 

We ended up seeing quite a few whales, 29 by their count but probably only about a third of those were close to the boat. We also saw a ton of Rizzo’s Dolphins and Sea Lions.

Rizzo's Dolphins

 

Sea Lion playing in the waves

 

Grey Whale fluting up for a dive

While two and half year olds have a limited attention span Oliver was great. He like riding on the boat and had lots of fun walking around the boat.

Lindsey and the Monkey

 

Taking a break from whale watching

We used Monterey Bay Whale Watch http://www.montereybaywhalewatch.com/ and were on their boat the Sea Wolf II. A couple years ago we went out with them and in addition to grey whales we saw a pod of Killer Whales which was pretty cool.

P.S. I'm hoping to keep up with things this year. Last fall got away from me. Over the next month or so I plan on going back and recounting all of the fun things we did last fall.