A visit from Baja orcas in Southern California and a kayaker’s close encounter with a great white shark in the San Francisco Bay Area highlighted a weekend of unexpected visitors along California’s shoreline.
Personnel and guests with Dana Point-based Capt. Dave’s Whale Watching Safari recorded a rare sighting of 13 Eastern Tropical Pacific orcas off Laguna Beach on Saturday.
“On a good year, we expect to see maybe one such orca,” said Capt. Matt Stumpf, who has sailed with Capt. Dave’s since 2020. “We may get one day where one or two trips get to see it, but that’s again one day in a good and typical year.”…