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The lagoon stretches sixteen miles into the desert and has a maximum width of five miles. The lagoon is divided into three sections. The upper lagoon is the shallowest and is the birthing area where pregnant female whales bear their young. The middle lagoon is the corridor where mothers travel with their newborn calves to the lower 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.
Rare Encounter With Gray Whale in Baja Leaves Tourists Stunned. Natalie Hoage. June 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM. Shutterstock/freisein. ... We all know gray whales are huge - they can grow up to 49 ...
The whale and calf swam near the boats about 45 minutes. Staff said it was the first such event in the 25 years they have been watching whales. Stunned whale-watchers witness birth of gray whale ...
A large spring-fed pond and small river on the outskirts of town feeds into the central plaza and village next to the eighteenth-century Jesuit mission. San Ignacio serves as the gateway to San Ignacio Lagoon, the winter time sanctuary of the Pacific gray whale.
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"Man of War Cove", Magdalena Bay, March 1908. As early as 1837 American whaleships visited the bay to cooper their oil and hunt sperm whales outside the bay. Between 1845–46 and 1865–66, American, as well as a few French, Dutch, and Russian, whaleships hunted gray whales in the bay during their winter calving season.
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 ...