a few more dolphins then head home

 

My last view of San Diego before I sleep most of the way back to Florida.

The sun starting to set as we returned to the pier.

One of the smaller whale boats we saw, the ship we were on was quite a bit bigger.

More Whale (actually bottlenose dolphin) watching.

 Once we found a pod of bottlenose dolphins (I think this is correct) we had some fun watching and photographing them play in our wake.

Whale watching

 We took a half day watching trip from San Diego harbor. Not spoil it, but we never saw any whales. We still really enjoyed it, lots to see, just not whales.

When I'm in wildlife mode, I'll take any wildlife I can find, even if they're not really that wild.

Downtown San Diego from the bay.

Naval Air Station North Island on Coronado.

Sea lions hanging out and relaxing on the navigation buoys.

Relaxing in the sun or maybe working on his tan?

Not a whale but a bottle nose dolphin. We did find a pod of dolphins and the captain did some figure 8s at throttle to make some wakes for them to play in. The next will be all dolphins, I promise.

Birch Aquarium

 In keeping with our animal theme for this trip we spent a day at the Birch Aquarium which is north of San Diego, on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

There are pluses and minuses in photographing at aquariums, you almost always shooting thru glass (hopefully clean) but lots of colorful animals and varying but interesting backgrounds.

Cleaning the glass, on the inside of the tank.

The view from the deck on the back of the aquarium.

Safari Park - giraffes

 My favorite part of the safari was the giraffes, they are such beautiful animals and the park herd included several babies and juveniles.