Whale Watching

Let’s go whale watching!  Whale watching is a fun and educational treat that you and your family will remember forever! Each 2 ½ hour narrated tour explain the history, habits, and other interesting information about the whales that frequent the central California coast. You will also experience many types of sea life found here and enjoy the scenic California coastline.

The waters off Morro Bay are home to an incredible assortment of marine mammals.  The most common whales sighted on our whale watching adventures are the majestic Pacific Gray Whales but the central coast hosts over 30 different species of whales and dolphins.  Occasionally, we are lucky enough to spot Orcas, Humpback, Minke, and Pilot Whales.

Blue and Humpback Whales

In recent years Humpback Whales, which are usually seen off the coast of Hawaii, have been visiting the area during the summer to feed on the krill produced in the clean ocean waters off Morro Bay.      

Whether you live in SLO County or you're just here visiting on vacation, you owe it to yourself and your family to go whale watching out of Morro Bay. This is a treat we're sure you'll remember forever. We often see harbor seals, sea otters, sea lions, an assortment of birds and other fantastic marine life so don’t forget your camera and binoculars!   

Pacific Gray Whales

Considered to be one of the most resilient species on Earth, the gray whale has fought its way back from the brink of extinction not once but twice in the past 150 years.  “Today, the eastern pacific population of gray whales is no longer considered endangered, but is still protected.

This year thousands of Pacific Gray Whales will journey past Morro Bay providing whale-watchers with spectacular displays of graceful, raw power and occasionally elegant acrobatics.  It’s an annual migration between the icy Northern Alaska feeding grounds and the warmer climate of Baja, Mexico for the winter where they mate and calve.

They’ll start to pass by Morro Bay in late December on their way south.  By March we begin seeing them heading north again.  The mothers and calves come later as they move more slowly and closer to the coastline, even coming within a few hundred yards of shore.