2008 Year end Video

These are some of our favorite video's put together from this year. The music is from the movie the holiday. We hope everyone has a great 2009. The directors for this video were Cherie, Marnie, Christina, and Eric. The dolphins inthe video are white sided, common, and the large one's jumping are bottle nose dolphin's.

Pictures of 2008

Whale's Tail shot by Cherie

Peliguns blend in with rocks at Santa Cruz Island

Common Dolphins racing our Seadoo's

Sailboat race

Peligun with Anacapa Island in the background

Top shot of Anacapa Island

Family of seals

As 2008 comes to a close we wanted to post our favorite Channel Island Photo's. It was a great year out on the ocean. We also hope to have more people join us in 2009. I have also set up the comment section so everyone can leave us a note on there favorite picture. You don't have to sign up anymore. We hope everyone has a great 2009. The first picture was shot by Cherie as we were out on a whale watching boat with Anacapa Island in the back ground. The 2nd is pelican's at Santa Cruz island. The 3rd is common dolphins with the mainland in the background. The 4th is one of the sailboats in a race with the islands in the background. The 5th is a shot from Santa Cruz with Anacapa in the background. The 6th is a top view of Anacapa looking north from the lighthouse. The 7th is a seal family near the Gina tower 4 miles out.

Back side of Santa Cruz Island

Sea Caves at Santa Cruz Island

Cory and Marnie at Santa Cruz Island

Anacap Island shoot from Santa Cruz Island

Back side of Santa Cruz Island

Today's forecast was for a very smooth ride with clear skies and a swell of 1 foot. It looked like one of those days you just have to get out there. Cory and Marnie joined me today for a trip to Santa Cruz. We headed to the back side of Santa Cruz (about 24 mile from the Harbor. I had never been to the back side before. It was a beautiful ride out there and we ran into some great dolphins on our way(See post for Video's). The trip home was nice the first part as we ran into more pods of dolphins but it continued to get colder and rougher as we went and the last 3 miles we got pretty wet and cold. Overall it was a great day for December and we had a good time. The picture of the pelligun flying has Anacapa Island in the background.

Christmas Dolphins

It was a great day for dolphins today on our way to Santa Cruz. We saw spotted, Spinner, and common dolphins. We had some good races with them and a lot of the time it felt like they were pulling us along. Marnie and I shoot the video's.

Parade of Lights

The penguin before he went swimming

Jackets were needed

This years parade of Lights party was our 3rd annual. We had 22 people join us on a cold and windy night. It was a very windy and cold day and it looked like they might cancel the parade. The wind calmed down at night and they were able to do the parade. A lot of the boats pulled out do to the wind but it was still a beautiful sight and I think everyone had a good time. The only casuality of the night was the penguin (see Picture) that decided to go for a swim on our first trip out. We went out 3 times on the electic boat and had some great food. Thanks to everyone for bringing food and for coming out. Also thanks to Heidi and Cherie for taking the video's and pictures. Also thanks to Aunt Mary for the penguin.

The Weather changes quickly

Coming back into the harbor

After the weather changed

Before the weather changed

Cherie and I headed out on the Seadoo's today. It started out as a very nice day as the sun was mostly out and the water was very flat. It felt like we were at a lake. We cruised around for a while and watched a sailboat race ( see pic's) and decided to go to ventura for lunch. We had a nice lunch atMilano's in the harbor. After lunch we headed out and the ocean had completly changed and it was cloudy and rough. We headed straight back and followed the sailboats from the race back in. We got to talk to some of the people in the race and they let us know it is always a race if they are drinking out of there red cups. Not sure what is in the cups but we could guess. We are looking foward to Parade of Lights Next Saturday.