Members of the Dana Point Surf Club catch waves before the sun sets on the first day of the 54th annual Festival of Whales in Dana Point on Friday, March 7, 2025.

Dana Point Harbor celebrates its 54th annual Dana Point Festival of Whales this year. (Courtesy of Dana Point Harbor Partners) By Sarah Mosqueda. Staff Writer Contact. March 4, 2025 5:53 PM PT .

Festival of the Whales logo artist Mika Denny cruises in style during the 49th Festival of Whales Parade in Dana Point, CA on Saturday, March 7, 2020. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County ...

Dana Point Festival of Whales: Those massive, fluke-rocking, water-bound behemoths, our whale friends, have been around for a really, really, really long time. (Add several more "reallys," if you ...

Dana Point, the whale watching capital of the world, celebrated its 51st Festival of Whales Saturday. This year’s festival was held in honor of festival founder Don Hansen, who died earlier this ...

Thar she sings. Photo courtesy Captain Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari in Dana Point. Whale song has had its hooks in the human imagination since 1979, when National Geographic bound a 33 1/3 ...

Dana Point’s Festival of Whales launches this weekend to mark the annual northern migration of the gray whales. But the Fin whales are stealing some of the spotlight. Support for LAist comes from.

For the 38th year, the Dana Point Festival of Whales celebrates the northern migration of California grey whales. More than 100,000 people show up for the two-weekend event in South Orange County.

It was a clear day off the Dana Point Harbor last weekend as one of the many leisure boats headed off to search for the coast’s regular visitors these days: migrating gray whales. It didn’t ...

Festival of Whales in Dana Point: So do the whales migrating along the California coast reroute their journeys to coincide with this long-running, two-weekend whoopdidoo, like we humans might ...