Newport Beach, CA Sightings this week included: Blue whales, Humpback whales, Minke whales, common dolphins, risso’s dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, mola molas, and even an elephant seal. This week saw a promising upswing in whale sightings including a few blue whales. Even more exciting was a massive influx of anchovies in our local waters off of Newport Beach, CA bringing minke whales and humpback whales to feed. We have seen humpback whales every tour for 3 days and there is plenty … Read More

It’s Blue whale time again! Krill is stacking up along the dropoff and the blue whales are beginning to filter in on the food along the Newport coastline. Consistency has been good for 2-3 days and numbers of whales will be in route. We are looking forward to upcoming trips and more blue whale sightings!

What an amazing couple of weeks we have had in Newport Beach, CA including dolphin trifectas of common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, and even risso’s dolphins. Though whale sightings have been inconsistent with the occasional blue whale, fin whale, or humpback whale traveling through, we are poised and hopeful for the second spree of blue whale sightings to take place very soon as feeding blue whales south of us have began to travel north. Fluctuations of numbers and consistency of whale … Read More

Summer is here! The sun has been shinning and pods of short beaked common dolphins (acrobats of the sea) have become more plentiful. Nothing like being surrounded by hundreds of short beaks showing off and vying for one’s attention. Minke whales have dominated sightings foraging on large concentrations of anchovies. We have also seen the occasional fin whale as well as humpback whale. Sightings have also included large pods of long beaked common dolphins, offshore bottlenose dolphins, numerous ocean sunfish … Read More

Today’s 1130a tour sighted 3 giant blue whales and all 3 showed their tails! Keeping the blue whale sightings going strong aboard East Meets West Excursions, Newport Beach – heading further offshore and scoring multiple blue whales on all 3 tours Thursday and our 2 tours today. With reports of more whales trending up from down South spread over all of Southern California, we are excited to see what the next couple months have in store for us here in … Read More

This weekend was nothing short of spectacular with 3-10+ giant blue whales seen on all tours. Action continues red hot with blue whales this week as over 10 blue whales were sighted less than 2 miles from Newport Beach on all 3 of our tours. Included in our sightings were commons dolphins and bottlenose dolphins. Now is the time to join East Meets West and have the opportunity to see the largest creature on earth up close!

4+ days of steady and consistent BLUE whale sightings, Newport Beach CA. Yesterday was so good, we didn’t even stop to look at fin whales unless they came close to us while we were waiting for another blue whale surface. At one point, we were triangulated by 3 blue whales all within a few hundred feet of one another. What a day! Our 2 private tours yesterday with Capt. Nick had spectacular sightings: 1130a – 4 blue whales, 4 fin … Read More

It was a fantastic weekend of whale watching with Captain Nick in Newport Beach. Sightings included multiple whales on all trips including fin whales, minke whales, and giant BLUE WHALES! The last 3 days have seen very consistent sightings of blue whales on all trips. Tours have seen 1-3 blue whales plus fin whales, as these whales have settled in on the abundant krill in our local waters off Newport Beach, CA. Our summertime ‘big whale program’ is ahead of … Read More

April and May, 2024, have seen some of the best whale sightings in years dominated by numerous fin whales. Almost the entire month of April, typically dedicated to covering shallow water close to the beach looking for migrating gray whale cow/calf pairs, saw impressive numbers and consistency of fin whales further off the coast. May is transitioning very well with continued fin whale sightings foraging on krill. We are beginning to see our ‘BIG WHALE’ season taking form ahead of … Read More