My goal was to see whales and the outcome was successful...even getting some amazing tail views!! I highly recommend this excursion!! More

Excellent time on this trip. Like the other reviews say, the boat isn't very big. We went on a Monday (when there were less people), so we didn't feel crowded. It was a warm day in Santa Cruz (probably 75 degrees), but it was very cool out on the water (again if you had layers, this was not a problem).... More

There were 5 of us (3 adults, 2 teens) on this tour. The boat was clean and well kept up. During the tour we saw Sea Lions, Sea Otters, Humpback Whales, and a Fin Whale. The Fin Whale was a very rare sighting--our naturalist says she hasn't seen one in the 12 years of doing this tour. The captain did... More

We saw everything- Blue whale, Humpback whales breaching, fluking, moms, calfs, Risso's Dolphin pods, Albatros, Pelicans, birds galore, Sea Lions, and even Sea Ottor in the harbor. More

On February 27th 2011 I went on my first Whale Watching trip ever and it was amazing ...we saw a bunch of gulls and the pacific white sided dolphins feeding on some anchovies and then we saw a pod of 5 gray whales and followed them for a bit it was a beautiful day out on the ocean and the... More

Add whale watching to your bucket list! It was a great experience for the whole family. We saw humpbacks surfacing literally less than 15 feet from the boat. More

My friend and I took our kids on the whale watching cruise two weeks ago and it was a fun, enjoyable experience for all of us thanks, in part, to my friend who insisted that we all take Dramamine before getting on the boat. The boat is not very big and we had a much larger group than most of... More

Our cruise left on time with 15 or so guests. Motored by the kelp bed for a brief visit with a dozen or so sea otters, spied the sea lions on the one-mile buoy, and headed out to open water. We followed one whale for 30 or 40 minutes as he fed on krill near the surface. We took a... More

We took our 3 boys to Santa Cruz and wanted to do something a bit different than just hit the boardwalk, so signed up a couple of weeks before with Stagnaro's. I didn't see a whole lot of whale watching excursions out of Santa Cruz, but more Monterey. We didn't want to drive back down to Monterey even though a... More