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San Diego offers a number of wonderful whale watching tours.
Starting November 2011, Bite San Diego launched a tour in La Jolla including seven popular restaurants: Brick and Bell, Bubbas Smokehouse BBQ, The Cottage, Cups, Extreme Pizza, Harvard Cooking School and We Olive. Bite also offers Old Town Walking Tours incorporating tastes from eight different restaurants and a guided historical tour of Old Town San Diego.
So Diego Tours’ newest offering is Tequila, Tacos and Tombstones, a food and beverage tasting tour of popular restaurants in Old Town State Historic Park. The walking tour combines dining with the story of San Diego in the 1820s–1850s. Guests hear commentary on Old Town’s history, which according to the tour was “a place where bull fights were a weekly occurrence, brutal executions were up for public viewing and the souls of today's ghosts thrived as living beings.” Tours begin at 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, and the cost is $45 per person.
San Diego Whale Watch offers year-round whale watching excursions boarding from Seaforth Landing near SeaWorld in San Diego. During December–April, the San Diego coastline is part of the amazing 5,000 mile annual migration of the Pacific gray whale from Alaska to their Mexican breeding grounds. During May–November, passengers can experience the migration of the great blue whales and mighty finback whales; minke, pilot and sperm whales are also possible sightings. Whale watching trips last 3 hours, with 1½-hour sunset cruises offered Thursday–Saturday evenings. Cost is $38 for Whale Watching and $28 for the Sunset Cruise.
From December 26, 2011 through April 15, 2012, naturalists from the Birch Aquarium at Scripps partner with Flagship San Diego Harbor Excursion to venture out on twice-daily public cruises from San Diego Bay to locate gray whales. Two 3.5-hour cruises depart daily at 9:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Birch Aquarium naturalists narrate the tours, and guests receive gray whale fact sheets. With state-of-the-art research equipment onboard, guests can detect and listen to whale and dolphin sounds. Indoor and outdoor seating is available as well as a full galley onboard. Reservations are recommended. Ticket prices are $40 for adults on weekdays and $45 for adults on weekends, and $17.50 for children on weekdays and $20 children on weekends.
Another Side of San Diego Tours is now offering three types of whale watching experiences available through December 2011. The 3-hour Whale Watching Sailing Yacht Tour costs $85 per guest and travels from Shelter Island to the Pacific Ocean where guests can see pods of dolphins and gray whales. The 3.5-hour Whale Watching Cruise aboard a comfortable, large whale watching yacht costs $35 per guest and is narrated by an experienced captain with information endorsed by the San Diego Natural History Museum. The 3-hour RIB Whale Watching Tour costs $94.35 per guest and offers a fast-paced ride out to the Pacific Ocean and an intimate on-the-water experience to search up-close for whales.
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