Second week of Uncruise

I am back on my own boat again!  After two weeks of labor aboard the Safari Voyager.  Arduous difficult hard work.  Where they fed me and gave me hot showers and lots of cookies.  
Ahh, sweet uncruise!  We found some dolphins right off, and this picture really shows the pointy part of the melon, the front of a dolphin.  I usually think of it as a round bit, but its kinda sharp on this one. 

Also, there was a confederation of Cormorants on the shore on this one beach.  They are discussing important matters.  

This fish is a Dog snapper, I think.  Look at those canines!

I liked this shot, the beach with waves breaking on it.

I really liked the sunrises

This is a turkey vulture flying by me, and I like the look of the wing tip, which is in focus.  If you zoom in, you can see that each primary feather is at a separate angle to the wind.   Its a series of airfoils, rather than a single big foil shape.  It helps for low speed flight and stall resistance.

One of the guests put a brittle star on his face (when I encouraged it) and I got this picture.  They really look like aliens, and they move quickly, like aliens, as we all know.

One of the crabs that hang out on the rocks.

We found several blue whales

Another look at this one.

And we went to Amortajada, where there are lots of cool birds.

A night heron

Some Black thoated sparrows

And a little hummingbird!

So now I'm working my way up north a bit on an adventure, then crossing over to Vallarta again.
 

First week of working on the Safari Voyager

So I sailed over to Baja for a couple reasons, one of which is to work for Uncruise for a couple weeks.  The first week has been a nice trip, with beautiful sunrises

We had a nice dawn along the shoreline of the san jose channel

With some great pelicans cruising along

And then we found two sperm whales!  They are the same ones that I found before, and in the same place, so it was fairly easy to find them.  

This one with the cut in the fin on the side has been here since october, and I think I saw it last year also, in about the same area.

Sunset is also pretty.

We went to Los Islotes and had a nice sea lion experience

And there was a humpback whale there

it gave us a nice little show

With a few skiff tours out there.

Here's a black throated sparrow

And some American Oystercatchers

And another nice sunrise.

I was trying to get a look at some crabs

We found a nice sea lion resting at the surface

A group of Common Dolphins

They like to jump

And again!

And, at last, a Blue Whale!

Two of them, and they cruised around us for a while

It was a nice day of watching the blue whales

Here are some Pelicans diving for fish in the early morning

And a Craveri's Murrelet

A little closer!

And a Blue Whale from a skiff tour

They have such an impressive blow!

The moon began to wax as we watched this week

On the last day we had a nice group of Grebes

And paddled in the mangroves, with lots of Egrets

A gull searching for some fish

Got it!

A nervous Reddish Egret

A juvenile Ibis

Another look at the Reddish Egret

A Golden-Crowned Night Heron

And some small guys, I think they are Dunlin

 Now we go to La Paz, do a turn around and I have one more week with the vessel and then I'll do a trip back to Vallarta