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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 ).
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.
Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ... June 5th of a rare encounter with a gray whale that a boatful of tourists in Baja, California got to experience. ... We all know gray ...
"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.
After a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore ... traveling a 14,000-mile round trip from their feeding grounds in the Arctic to breed in the Baja California lagoons, and then back again ...
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 ...
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 group of whale watchers got the thrill of their lives when a gray whale gave birth to a calf right next to their small boat on Jan. 2 at Dana Strands Beach in Dana Point, California.