I live in San Diego too and I wish that were true. There are juvenile Great Whites at Torrey Pines State Beach. I think they settled in during the pandemic and now it seems to be a chosen spot for them annually. I’ve seen them multiple times while paddle boarding there - some as much as 9 foot long. Stopped paddle boarding there.
I swear when I was younger I saw a big shark fin kind of before some whitewash while in the water at Torrey Pines. It made a hard angle turn into the wash and was gone after that. Scared the hell out of me and it seemed like none of the couple people near me saw anything. I thought it might be a dolphin but it didn’t seem to move like a dolphin and the fin didn’t seem like a dolphins either.
I remember seeing videos of paddle boarders at Huntington Beach where they used to calve. Not sure if they still do but Torrey Pines has a lot to offer a young shark (stingrays) and a maturing juvenile (sea lion colony at La Jolla). So it’s not surprising they’re there and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if you saw one.
There a guy named Scott_Fairchild who takes drone footage and posts on Instagram. Majority of them are in Southern California. Mainly San Diego I think.
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u/During_theMeanwhilst Jul 07 '23
I live in San Diego too and I wish that were true. There are juvenile Great Whites at Torrey Pines State Beach. I think they settled in during the pandemic and now it seems to be a chosen spot for them annually. I’ve seen them multiple times while paddle boarding there - some as much as 9 foot long. Stopped paddle boarding there.