| Laguna San Ignacio Baja California Sur Mexico & the San Diego Zoo |
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| These photos are from a whale watching trip to San Ignacio Lagoon on the Pacific Coast of the Baja Peninsula in March of 2003 |
| The trip started with a flight to San Diego. This is NOT the San Diego airport. We took a bus across the border to the Tijuana, Mexico airport to catch the above plane. It looks MUCH better in the photo than it did in person, trust me. We flew about 2 hours down the Baja to the above dirt air strip. It was an interesting trip to say the least |
| We then had a 15 minute ride down a dirt "road" to a little cantina on the lagoon with a few boats anchored near it. After a 5 minute waid to the boats we took a 30 minute boat ride to this island camp. It was in the middle of NOWHERE! |
| Another view of the camp. |
| Desert plants on the island near the camp. the weird thing about this desert was that it was cool. The WIND off the Pacific kept it comfortable to cool during the day and downright cold at night. |
| This is a shallow part of the lagoon between our island and the mainland. The tides fluctuated quite a bit and a low tides there were acres of tidal flats exposed. It was beautiful and supported lots of interesting birds. |
| What we came for: a Grey Whale. We were able to get quite close to them, as you will see. We were restricted by the Mexican government to 90 minute sessions on the lagoon twice a day. There were about 10 or so of the boats from 3 camps based at the lagoon. The lagoon is really big so you never felt crowded. The other camps were not in sight. |
| A favorite evening activity in camp: the prettiest sunsets you have ever seen. |
| A close up: notice the eye in the upper left. |
| We DID get close! |
| Nice look at the "blow holes". |
| Bed rooms. We had about 25 guests and 10 staff in camp. |
| Another desert isle sunset. |