Whale Watching Tours

San Diego Whale Watching Tours

San Diego is the birthplace of whale watching in its commercial format. The first ever location to be selected as a lookout point for whale watching was the Cabrillo National Monument, and this great form of entertainment has its roots from there. Even today San Diego whale watching tours are the most popular in the world, and several hundreds of tourists land here, year after year, just to catch a glimpse of some of the most exotic whales of the world.

In San Diego, whale watching is a professional multimillion dollar industry. Tourists are regaled with completely narrated whale watching tours, where they can not only watch these mammoth animals close up, but they can also get several tidbits of information about how these creatures live in their aquatic habitat. During a San Diego whale watching tour, a sighting of the California Gray Whale is the most common thing to happen, because San Diego coast is the place from where the thousands of gray whales migrate each year, traveling 10,000 nautical miles from the Bering Sea to Baja California, and then back again.

The gray whales that migrate these lengths of the Arctic Sea annually provide rare visual treats to people who flock to these San Diego whale watching excursions. People are most likely to see these animals breaching, which is the action of the whale when it brings out its entire length of the body out of the water and then splashes into the water back again with a great force. The breaching act is indeed a sight of a lifetime. It shows clearly how enormous these animals are. Another common sight to catch on a San Diego whale watching tour is the spy hopping act of the whale. When a whale spy hops, it is simply bringing out its large head out of the water to check out who has come a-visiting. Just one look at a gray whale's head is enough to indicate the size of one of the biggest animals of the world.

For all their size and enormity, whales are actually very docile creatures. This is what people learn on these San Diego whale watching excursions. Whales allow people to watch them, and do not lunge at the vessels carrying the people like some sharks might do. In fact, whales allow people to watch them in their full glory. They are slow swimmers in the vast sea, and that is the reason why they can provide such generous views to people. That also allows watchers to check out ways in which the whales breathe and catch the occasional spouting of a whale, which is a mesmerizing sight to say the least.

Typical San Diego whale watching tours are conducted from December to March, and though whale sightings are not guaranteed, there is a very rare chance that you will not spot a whale in the blue. Prices vary from one cruise provider to another. A short San Diego whale watching cruise could charge at $7-8 per hour per person, but there are longer cruises running for up to two weeks, that could charge as much as $3000. Whale watchers are royally treated on these vessels, with luxury suites, and a host of gourmet food and drink onboard. Also, a San Diego whale watching cruise is not only about whale watching. While waiting for the whales to make their appearance, people can catch evidences of sharks in the sea and several other fish popping in and out of the waters. Even the skies are full of several species of aquatic migratory birds that people can see.

A San Diego whale watching tour will also provide a very good opportunity to check out the interesting coastline of San Diego, which really comes alive at night when the city decorates itself with generous lighting.

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