Whale watching in Guerrero Negro
The grey whales spend 3 months here in the Baja every winter and 3 summer months in Alaska. The round trip of 12500 miles takes about 3 months each way with the whales travelling around 80 miles a day . The young are born here, and matting occurs here. They are about 50 feet long and weigh 40,000 lbs.
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| There are hundreds of whales in this area, you could see the spouts of water in the distance in every direction |
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Usually it is only the calves that approach the boat, but after about 10 minutes we had these
monsters around the boat continually. |
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You splash the water with your hands and the movement and the noise will
make the whales approach the boat |
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| Some times there would be 5 or 6 around the boat at once |
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| The brown spots are barnacles that attach to the whales just like to a ship |
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| Some times they would relax and let you pet them for almost a minute |
Before we departed from the area we got to see them matting. That is pretty rare.
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This barge full of salt, harvested from the lagunes, was waiting to be towed out to sea, where the salt would be transferred to an ocean going vessel for export
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| A sea lion was sunning himself on the corner of the deck |
2 comments:
That's very cool! I've never been nearly that close to a whale.
Does a whale ever get angry, sick, or extra playful and attack a tour boat? What size of boat were you in?
I am not aware of them getting angry, they were sure docile while we were there The tour boat was probably 18 or 20 foot fiberglass, Maximum number of passengers was 14 , we were only 7 so there was lots of room for everybody to pet the whales
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