The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Humpback Whales off Bodega Head this morning (10 October 2025). Here's a view of the splashdown after the breach:     It's been ...

    Whale activity continued off of Bodega Head today (26 July 2025).  This afternoon I tried to get a few photos of breaching.  The whales ...

    We were on a field trip to the Fort Ross/Salt Point area today (16 July 2025).  I didn't have a chance for many photos, but there wa...

    A distant shot, but I wanted to record that there have been good numbers of Humpback Whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) off Bodega Head t...

    Lots of whale activity off Bodega Head today (3 October 2022)...the most Humpback Whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) I've seen at one...

    I don't have much time tonight, but here are a few Humpback Whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) photos from the offshore boat trip on 2...

    I know, it's a bit distant and blurry, but there were some nice Humpback Whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) breaches out near the hori...

      Humpback Whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) at the surface just offshore of Bodega Head, 17 October 2020.

  Humpback Whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) have been visible offshore of Bodega Head recently.  They've been pretty far out, but ...

  Descending Humpback Whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) flukes, offshore of Bodega Head, 6 October 2019.

  There were quite a few Humpback Whales off Bodega Head tonight (20 September 2019).

  Humpback Whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) have been quite active off Bodega Head during the last couple of days.  Although somewhat ...

  Humpback Whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) spout off Bodega Head, 16 September 2018.  

Here are a few more photos from the pelagic trip to Cordell Bank last Sunday (15 October 2017).  If I remember right, we encountered this gr...

Nice views of Humpback Whales from the boat trip to Cordell Bank on 1 4 August 2016:       In the last picture, one whal...

I haven't posted about a mammal in a while, so this afternoon I decided to try to photograph the Humpback Whales that have been visible ...