What is special about Laguna de San Ignacio?

San Ignacio Lagoon’s significance to the world community Not only is San Ignacio Lagoon a gray whale sanctuary, but it is one of only two undeveloped nursery and breeding grounds of the Pacific gray whale worldwide.

Where can you touch GREY whales?

Baja is the only place in the world where gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) swim up to pangas to be stroked, petted, kissed, and even hugged. It’s incredible. Interaction is entirely on the whales’ terms, with mama whales even pushing their calves against the side of the boats to be stroked.

Where is San Ignacio Lagoon?

In 1988 Mexico established the Visciano Biosphere Reserve to include San Ignacio Lagoon, which is Latin America’s largest wildlife sanctuary. Not only is San Ignacio lagoon a gray whale sanctuary, but it is the last and only undeveloped nursery and breeding ground in the world of the Pacific Gray Whale.

When can you see whales in Baja?

Baja Whale Watching Season Migratory whales begin to arrive in December and remain through April. The winter months of January through March are the best time to see gray whales in the mating and breeding lagoons along the Pacific coast.

Who saved the Whale lagoon?

“Who Saved The Whale Lagoon” is a project to document the remarkable interspecies connection, indeed love, between humans and whales at Laguna San Ignacio – a beautiful, isolated lagoon along the Pacific Coast of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.

Can touching whales make them sick?

Not unless a human is really rough with the whale and damages the whale’s delicate skin. Kissing, stroking and lightly scratching a whale is not injuring them.

Where can I see whales in the Sea of Cortez?

BAHIA LORETO: Start the day searching for marine life in the waters south of Isla Carmen, an area that has proven to be one of the best for finding blue and fin whales, as well as bottlenose and common dolphins.

Has anyone survived being swallowed by a whale?

Massachusetts commercial lobster diver Michael Packard thought he was going to die after a humpback whale swallowed him into its mouth in 45 feet of water off Cape Cod. But he survived.

Has a whale ever attacked a ship?

The Ann Alexander was a whaling ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts. She is notable for having been rammed and sunk by a wounded sperm whale in the South Pacific on August 20, 1851, some 30 years after the famous incident in which the Essex was stove in and sunk by a whale in the same area.

Can you see Orcas in Cabo?

Although seldom seen, it is possible to see Orcas in the waters off the coast of Cabo San Lucas. Although orcas tend to aggregate in cold water, they live in all the world’s oceans, from the Antarctic to the tropics, and also Baja California Sur, Mexico.