Alvaro's Adventures has Morro Bay pelagic trips scheduled for August 12 and October 1, 2023. Sign-up information in Alvaro's newsletter.
Tom Edell Cayucos, CA
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-------- Original message -------- From: Alvaro's Adventures <alvaro@...> Date: 3/27/23 9:46 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Tom <tedell@...> Subject: Pelagic Schedule - Hawaii - Bolivia.
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We have a full schedule of pelagic trips for 2023 up online! We are hoping that the great luck we have had in the last few years continues, not only with rare birds, but spectacle! There have been some days where the birds and wildlife have been world class. We are super excited. We can summarize 2022 as a superb year for seabirds and marine mammals. We found multiple Hawaiian Petrels and wonder if they will become more regular as conservation successes continue to allow the population to increase. Nazca Booby is also on the increase, and a true surprise was a Horned Puffin out of Morro Bay last year. It is rare, while the Tufted Puffin is expected when we get out to the Farallon Islands (those trips are in June, July and into Aug.). Of course there were thousands of the regularly occurring species, there was so much out there and we are hoping that 2023 is similar or better. In 2022 on two occasions on our longer Monterey Bay trips, we found Baird's Beaked Whales! There were multiple Killer Whale sightings, it was not a bad year last year.
What is new for 2023? Well, we are returning to Bodega Bay which we have not been to since pre-pandemic. Two trips from that port in 23. We are retaining the second Morro Bay trip we started in 22, and several of the Monterey trips are the longer 10 hour "Albacore grounds" trips, those have been the best for rare cetaceans. We have also grown fond of the Outer Limits, a comfortable and fast catamaran based in Sausalito, we have increased the number of Farallon Island trips on the Outer Limits this year and we retain the San Francisco county trip out of Sausalito as we did last year.
The schedule is here. Note that if there is great demand we may add dates.
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Looking forward.
Many of our tours are sold out, and some have multi-year waiting lists. Thank you for your interest. We are lucky to be in such a position as a company, but it is also a sign that we need to grow! Now that the pandemic is firmly in the rear-view mirror, knock on wood, we have turned our thoughts to this. We are intending to add more new tours, and bring back some from our "back catalogue" as we begin to introduce new guides to you. That is the plan, more tours, more guides, more options for bird related travel.
Our culture has always been to get out there and enjoy the birds and wildlife, with like minded people. We have always thought that it is important we have fun, that we learn, that we appreciate, and when possible that we eat well! Our aim has always been about the holistic view of birding travel, were lifers are one part of a greater constellation of things that make birding and travel worthwhile. Part of our interests is that birding travel actually helps the people who are the stewards of the birds we go and see, and that the birds benefit as well. With this philosophy in mind, we will bring in folks who are like minded as tour guides. As we say out here in coastal California, we are stoked to be moving forward on this.
We aim to get more tours happening, and to get you out birding rather than sitting on a wait list! Keep watching here for more details, and do E-mail us with questions, or even your tour requests.
What else? There is a rumor out there that apart from Alaska in May with Alvaro and George Armistead in 2024, George and Alvaro will be heading to Subantarctic New Zealand in the end of 2024. Once the itinerary is finalized by the ship, we will let you know about this amazingly rich area for penguins, albatross, and endemic island species. As always E-mail us if you want to pencil in your interest for this trip. Alvaro is shaking with excitement, it will be awesome.
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-- Tom Edell Cayucos, CA
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