Whale Watching at Kuyima

Every winter from January through March the grey whales of the pacific come to three lagoons in Baja California Sur to mate with one another and have their babies from the previous years mating (a grey whales gestation is 13 months!). Since we were going to be at one of the lagoons in the scheduled time of year, we figured it would be a crime to not take advantage of it. We made some friends from Oregon in our new campsite in San Ignacio and we got together and took the trip out to the lagoon. I do not know what else to say but "wow". Those whales were absolutely spectacular! There were 202 grey whales in the lagoon on the day that we went. They jumped and belly-flopped and spouted and sprayed and and mated and played and flicked water with their tales! One whale got almost close enough for us to touch her, but she sprayed her blowhole water all over us instead. It was a riot! I don't know if it's because we watched Jurassic World right before we came out here... but those whales just reminded us of dinosaurs. Ginormous, strong, and spectacular.





Ty got all the good pictures and video on his gopro so these are just a teeny tiny taste of the amazing whales we got to see.


I wish I could speak Spanish so I could interpret this sign. The host at the restaurant interpreted it for us and it was amazing. I guess the bay is called Kuyima bay because of this certain grey whale in 1991 was so covered in barnacles that it looked like a pure white whale. It would come up out of the water and the moon would shine on it and light up the whole sky... or something like that... haha it was very beautiful when he read it to us. Definitely an experience we will remember forever.
Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Mexico

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