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San Francisco Tells the Secretary of Interior: NO to Off-Shore Oil Drilling

TweetThis was the scene today down at UCSF Mission Bay where the Secretary of the Interior got an earful about how San Francisco doesn’t want offshore oil drilling anytime soon. Poor Interior Secretary...

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60 Show for Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s Anti-Whaling Protest at City Hall

TweetAbout 60 people (including two dressed up as cetaceans, plus two dogs – of course, dogs love whales) showed for San Francisco’s part of today’s statewide protest against whaling. Oddly, our MSM...

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Japanese Company Shimano the Target of “Put the Sea in Cycling” Bike Rally...

Tweet[UPDATE: District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi will be there to speak out.] An anti-Shimano bike rally will take place this afternoon at 5:30 PM. Think of it as a kind of Critical Mass for the...

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The Happy Sea Lions of the Farallon Islands – All Playing Together with Whales

TweetThis is the scene from five miles west of the Farallones. Get the story of the whales right here. Click to expand: Via (nz)dave

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The Humpback Whales of San Francisco County – Meet Mama, Papa and Junior –...

TweetAll right, I need to payoff on that headline. Here are your humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) of San Francisco County, which, of course, includes a whole bunch of ocean (depending on how...

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OMG, Your Best Way to Spend $125: 2012 Farallon Island Whale Watching Season...

TweetCheck it, our very own Oceanic Society is kicking off annual Farallon Island whale watching season on May 26, 2012. All the deets: “WHALE WATCH/NATURE CRUISES TO FARALLON ISLANDS BEGIN MAY 26...

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Boat-Damaged Humpback Whale, Golden Gate

TweetAs seen from the Golden Gate Bridge. None of the others looked like this, AFAICS. The lines running from lower left to upper right: Boat vs. whale has been in the news lately…

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Mother Whales and Baby Whales, ‘Neath the Golden Gate Bridge

TweetIDK if Golden Gate Humpback Whale Season 2017 is over already, but man, I’ve never seen so many whales in Frisco waters as I’ve seen the past week. And this was from farther away. I was thinking...

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Frisco Boats vs. Frisco Whales – How Close is Too Close? –“iSailboat” Bears...

TweetIDK the answer to this question. This is prolly the closest I saw the past week or so. A large Beneteau 40 sailboat (named iSailboat, worth what, a couple hundred thou?) east of the Golden Gate...

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Fire Boat vs. Humpback: SFFD Slows and Stops to Avoid Striking a Whale...

TweetThis was yesterday: With the whale down again, the San Francisco Fire Department boat then puttered away. We’ve had a lot of documented whale strikes lately, but this is the most care I’ve seen...

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Photos of Our Humpback Whale Season 2017: The Views that You Can Have from...

TweetAs preschool season begins, whale season ends, for me anyway. But I’ve heard reports from just a few days ago, so you might still be able to see some. Sometimes you can be on the bridge and see...

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Vessel vs. Humpback Whale Collisions Must Have Occurred Daily During Sardine...

TweetIDK. But man, there’s just so much traffic (whales, boats,kite boarders, tankers, container ships, barges, etc.) under and near our Golden Gate Bridge that collisions are inevitable. This captain...

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Berkeley Pedestrian Bridge Over the I-80 Reads as You Might Expect: “US NAVY...

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Mother and Child Near the Golden Gate Bridge – This is Pretty Much It for San...

TweetThese two have been diving the Golden Gate just west of The Bridge for the past month or so, best I can figure. Here are some other recent sightings. Maybe more fish will come over the next month...

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