Stash the binoculars in your bag, check the camera batteries and sail into the deep blue sea with Cape May Whale Watch. From March through December, the waters off the coast of Cape May are teeming with sea life and the chances of spotting a whale, dolphin or porpoise are really good. And if you don’t spot anything at all, you’ll get a coupon good for another trip.

But chances since the Delaware Bay is prime feeding area, you’ll see something – dolphins, porpoises or Humpback, Finback and the occasional Minke whale.

Cape May Whale Watch operates a 110 foot boat, fully inspected and Coast Guard approved, that has shady spots for really sunny days, lots of rail space so you can get uninterrupted views and a snack bar for when you get hungry. Cruises can last two hours for the Dolphin Watch or three hours for the combination Whale/Dolphin Watch, which goes a little farther out. They also have dinner cruises and day-long Lighthouse cruises that take you past nine lighthouses along the New Jersey and Delaware coasts.

Sea critters don’t take a day off and neither does Cape May Whale Watch. So even if it is raining, they set sail and because they have an enclosed, climate-controlled deck, you can stay dry while keeping an eye out for whichever sea creatures pop their heads up that day.

The boat follows all the National Marine Fisheries and NOAA Whale Watching Guidelines. They never get closer than 100 feet and they don’t hang around in one spot for longer than 15 minutes. But they still talk about the times when they have shut off the engines and come to a full stop and Humpbacks have come so close that they were almost touching the boat - merely feet away! It doesn't happen often.  But when it does . . .. wow!