SAN JOSE, Calf.—As we speak, there’s a spouting, breaching, vocalizing superhighway of whales off the California coast. Epicureans might be disappointed that it has led to a delay in the crab season, as the roving creatures can get tangled up in trap lines. But on the bright side, it’s created fantastic opportunities for whale watching, with encounters visible from the shore if you know where to look.
“It’s crazy—there’s plenty of activity. I was just in Tiburon and a humpback whale came right into Raccoon Strait (inside the Bay), a couple hundred feet away,” said Bill Keener, a cetacean research biologist at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.
