Adventure Boat Tours and Ocean Activities in San Luis Obispo, California — Avila Beach offers a unique Coastline filled with Caves and Marine Life. Visit the largest Aquarium in the Pacific where Sea Lions, Pelicans, Whales and Otters roam free. Come Explore with Avila Beach Boat Charters.
Avila Beach Boat Charters
September - October 2020 is a great time to see Humpback Whales. SLO.TOURS has found whales on every tour this year. Best Day Ever Boat Adventure Tours.
Visit Avila Beach - Morro Bay’s real Aquarium. The largest Fish tank in the world!
The Real Morro Bay Aquarium
Did you know that on just 1 whale watching charter we travel in the areas of Pismo Beach, Shell Beach, Oceano Dunes, Avila Beach and sometimes up to Montana de Oro in the Los Osos area. Become a Pirate and head to Port in Avila Beach.
Visit bongobaystudio.com for custom artwork of your boat! You won’t be disappointed. Alan is a creative and genuine person and super cool dude.
Owner / Operator Micheal Brink pictured here training with the Navy overtaking vessels.
With SLO.TOURS, Micheal will keep you safe in his USCG S.A.F.E. Boat Defender. Made of marine grade aluminum and bulletproof collars.
Poor little grey whale navigated to close to shore in Port San Luis / Avila Beach.
SLO TOURS got to work with the Shark Week Crew again. You will see our SAFEBOAT Defender in a 2020 episode. Can’t wait to see the program! We love sharks and the Central Coast has plenty of them. 🦈
Want to be a Pirate! Visit Port San Luis
Amazing experience! Definitely a must-do if going to SLO or nearby.
Captain with a lot of knowledge about whales and making the experience memorable! Learning a lot about the whales while watching them from close distance. Also dolphins, sea lions, otters.
Can't wait to go again.
USCG SAFEBOAT DEFENDER Whale Watching Tour Boat
The Best Whale Watching in California ! The Best Day Ever Boat Adventure you will ever have in Avila Beach, CA
Great show yesterday! A Breaching Whale almost splashed the Safeboat Defender.
Photos by Ashala Tylor: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ashala
Even with all this fog we had this week, we still find the good stuff! All passengers clearly saw a 8-10’ White Shark just off Cal-Poly Pier. Also saw 4 Humpback Whales o the tour. Fun day.
Awesome Whale IPhone Photo from a passenger on 6-20-2019. Whales are here in full force.
Back in 2011, the Humpback Whales found a new summer home in Avila Beach and Pismo Beach. Captain Micheal (in the red jacket) is near Cal-Poly Pier while taking a close up picture of feeding humpbacks. This picture became front cover of The Tribune.
When you go to Avila Beach, you expect to see otters, sea lions ... and tourists.
But one local boat captain saw something rare: Killer Whales.
Micheal Brink of SLO.TOURS said he was a mile south of the Port San Luis Pier when he saw a pod of about five orcas feeding on bait fish, along with about 30 sea lions. Four of the orcas, which were medium-sized, surfaced within 3 feet of his vessel. The fifth one, a large adult, kept its distance, Brink said.
Brink said that he has seen Orcas on the Central Coast only one other time: In Morro Bay in April 2013.
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article152079587.html
Great White Shark filmed by Captain Micheal Brink in San Luis Obispo County.
It’s great white shark season in the Pacific Ocean and this week Michael Brink, owner of SLO.TOURS, had a close encounter with one during a charter. Brink and his passengers were investigating a dead Pacific white-sided dolphin that they found floating in the ocean, when all of a sudden they noticed a big shark rubbing itself against the side of the boat.
Brink estimates that the shark was about 18-20 feet long. He was able to capture some film of it swimming around with the GoPro that he had been using to film the dead dolphin. Possibly attracted by the scent of the dolphin’s blood in the water, it came to investigate the scene and it was curious enough to examine the boat as well.
Brink was certain that it was indeed a great white shark, but he sent the footage off to the experts at the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment just to be sure. Both organizations confirmed that the shark was indeed a great white. Dr. Barbara Block, researcher and professor of marine sciences at Stanford, replied that it in fact looks like an individual known to her research group. She might be able to identify the shark with closer analysis and cross-referencing their own great white shark photo database.
Brink, who has spent his entire life around the water, added that this was the first time he had ever seen a great white shark. Apparently, it stayed in the area for about 20 minutes and then swam off without taking a bite of the dead dolphin. “I was in awe,” Brink said.
Check out the GoPro footage: GREAT WHITE SHARK
