Humpback whales have begun to make the Bay Area their home this fall, and their spouts are a daily sight across the area and even into the bay itself.
Stretching from Monterey to Bodega Bay, videos and images have been going viral with whales breaching beside whale watching boats and surfers. A video, shown on the West Marin Feed Instagram, even showed a humpback whale breaching some 40 feet from a whale watching ship just south of Stinson Beach. If one is looking to see whales in Sonoma, the best spot to see them is Bodega Head. In Marin County, one can see whales best off the Marin Headlands coast and at Stinson Beach.
However, much of the attention toward the whales has been on Pacifica in the south bay, where photographers have been flocking to docks and shorelines to view the consistent sights of spouting humpbacks very close to shore. Even the local Facebook group has become overrun with people not local to the area, excited to learn and share their photographs, according to the Mercury News…