Ocean based wild animal tourism

Every year gray whales migrate more than 10,000 miles between their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic and the coastal lagoons of the southern Baja peninsula. Laguna San Ignacio in Baja California Sur, Mexico is one of 3 lagoons on the southwest coast of Baja that are the winter home of the gray whale. The whales use these protected, shallow, warm waters as calving nurseries.

San Ignacio is the only lagoon that remains undeveloped and pristine. Here the gray whales spend the months of December to April mating (quite the spectacle to behold), giving birth and feeding their young calves. San Ignacio Lagoon is within the El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, designated a Biosphere Reserve / World Heritage Site by the Mexican government in 1988.