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Ocean Diversity shared a video on their Instagram page on Wednesday, June 5th of a rare encounter with a gray whale that a boatful of tourists in Baja, California got to experience. It's awe ...
San Ignacio Lagoon (Laguna San Ignacio) is a lagoon located in Mulegé Municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, 59 kilometers (37 mi) from San Ignacio, Mexico, and Highway 1. It is one of the winter sanctuaries of the eastern Pacific gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus). San Ignacio Lagoon
Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Mexico.Rectangle at lower right is evaporation pond for salt plant. Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) at Laguna Ojo de Liebre. Ojo de Liebre Lagoon (also known as Scammon's Lagoon [2]), translated into English as "hare eye lagoon", is a coastal lagoon located in Mulegé Municipality near the town of Guerrero Negro in the northwestern Baja California Sur state of Mexico.
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Guerrero Negro is near a lagoon frequented by Grey whales. The town is on Federal Highway 1. The town has a celebration each year to hail the annual arrival of the gray whales that calve in the lagoons of Baja California Sur (BCS). This festival occurs during the first half of February.
Gray whales perform one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal, traveling a 14,000-mile round trip from their feeding grounds in the Arctic to breed in the Baja California lagoons, and ...
Capt. Charles M Scammon, Scientist Overland Monthly Scammon's 1874 illustration of a gray whale. Charles Melville Scammon (1825–1911) was a 19th-century whaleman , naturalist , and author. He was the first to hunt the gray whales of both Laguna Ojo de Liebre and San Ignacio Lagoon , the former also known as "Scammon's Lagoon" after him.
A gray whale surfaces with open eyes in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California, where the species goes to calve and nurse its young. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) The story of the gray whales ...