Watch for whales

A whale watching trip in Santa Cruz offers a stunning enterprise, enabling travelers to take in dazzling perspectives, the superb salty air, and delicate swells, and also to spot humpback whales amongst April and November, as the animals that spend the winter a very long time off the Mexican drift return north to the focal California drift for the bolstering season. These whales are known for being particularly inquisitive, and frequently come straight up to the vessel to do their own "people watching."

Gray whales can be spotted amongst December and April, and transient executioner whales can be seen whenever however they're most basic in the spring. Notwithstanding the whales, there is a plenitude of dolphins, porpoises, ocean otters, ocean lions and a wide range of flying creatures that can be spotted too.