Dolphin Safari

As it was another beautiful summer's day in Southern California we decided to go on a Dolphin Safari leaving from Dana Point. Our ship left at 1:30 and it was 75 degrees on the beach and not a cloud in the sky. There were probably about 40 people on the boat and they told us that Blue Whales had been seen about 4 miles off the coast and so we would go there first and see the dolphins on the way back.
Sightings of Blue Whales are much rarer than dolphins, so that was a great plan. We ended up seeing 4 different whales during our 3.5 hour cruise and we watched them play on the surface and dive many times and the closest we got was about 75 yards to them - that's pretty close!
Then we saw some Risso dolphins about 20 of them, they look different to what you expect a dolphin to look like - having a whiter, more bulbous head. There was also a baby amongst .
Then on the way back to shore we had some common dolphins riding our bow waves (so they were almost under our feet)

This was a PERFECT day.