Shark Attack…or Sharks Get Attacked

  We were scanning the East Cape coastline, waiting to get another glimpse of a shadow of a roosterfish, when two pangas began heading our way. They gunned it right before they hit land and launched themselves high up onto the sand, an expeditious anchoring...

Eyeball to Eyeball With Gray Whales

  We’ve had visitors this past month, and we were hoping to find things that would really impress them and prove our worth as maritime tour guides. We figured whale watching would bring in the big tips, so off we went to Todos Santos on the Pacific coast of Baja....

Not A Sasquatchfish – An Oarfish!

Drumroll please.  We’ve talked with three different biologists that all came to the same separate conclusion about our sea monster sighting (if you missed it, see the post with video and photos here). What we saw, according to all the experts, was an oarfish, a...

Can Sasquatch Swim: Oarfish Sea Monster Sighting

  The sea was glassy calm, an eerie occurrence in itself for late January, so we were motoring along making our way towards Isla San Jose. 100 yards away, two tentacles arose from the depths and slowly bobbed about, dangling and turning in the air about a foot...

100 Birds

  It took exactly three months and four days to do it, but we finally hit the century mark. The Varied Bunting, tucked in tight among the mesquite that overhung the little freshwater spring, flitted about and gave us just enough time to get a good look.  ...

Video: Dolphins Storm the Sailboat!

The seas were glassy calm, itself a rarity in these stormy climes of February, so we could see every last detail of the sea surface for miles. We saw a tiny shark laze around the boat, and then we saw a slightly bigger shark laze around the boat. Sea lions surfaced...