Why go out in the ocean in January?
 

Well it sounded like a good idea at the time.
Look at how rough it was and all the stuff in the water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g67bHUh9gxE
Hopefully i did the link right this time

Cool what was the temp?

Around 70
Cloudy most of the run but clear by the time we got back. we were only out for couple of hours.

Jammin to Journey huh?

thats pretty cool

I don't think I have ever seen that many at one time. I was coming back from Catalina one day in very rough seas. About half way back I came across a school of tuna boiling the water. It was very majestic and calming until I thought about what was chasing them.

Very Cool.... I was just out there a few weeks ago in Laguna Beach for the Holidays, we saw the Dolphins just about every morning when we were on the beach, not that many of them though!!!
Very cool video thanks for sharing....

Patrick

Super cool. Great to have a video for times like that. I've tried taking dolphin pics with a still camera, and it's a real PITA.

So cool! thanks for posting that.

I experienced that exact same thing back in 2000. We were coming back from Catalina, it was right at sundown, and suddenly we are surrounded by thousands of dolphins- as far as you could see in every direction. The angle of the setting sun made them look like silver flashes as they jumped. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I was driving boat and couldn't get my hands on a camera.

Years ago had a 32' boat in Ventura Harbor. We used to like going to the other side of Anacapa and feed the baby sea lions. They'd swim out to us and the parents on land would be loudly protesting.

Look for swarms of birds - head for the birds. The dolphins are usually there with them.

One time, we experimented. We slowed down, they slowed down. We sped up, the sped up. Really really cool.

Very cool! do they ever hit the boat? Just curious!

Wow! Seems like there were hundreds of them. I would be afraid of hitting them. I have never been on the ocean in a boat(I was on an aircraft carrier for a few days in the Black Sea, though), that must really be something. Awesome video. Thx!

They NEVER hit the boat, at least in my experience. Every time I've been in a large pod we were only going 25-35 knots, so maybe a go-fast at speed might be a different story. My feeling is they are fairly quick, smart and agile enough to avoid fiberglass.

Come to think of it, has anyone EVER heard of a boat hitting a dolphin?

I would never go into a pod at speed but even then i doubt you would hit one they are really fast

At one point we were going about 40 with none of them in sight and all of the sudden had a couple of them jumping out of the water right beside us

But i have got wet from them splashing right beside me.

glad we went out on sat and not today

http://cdip.ucsd.edu/?sub=nowcast&nav=recent&xitem=spc

I was in the middle of them a number of times. Never had a bump. And I think you'd know it if one was hit.