miércoles, 4 de marzo de 2015

Whales Watching

My dearest readers, this time I want to share with you the experience I had with a 40 tons animal with its calf in their most calm and caring moment.

During the winter, the gray whale comes all the way from Bering Strait to many spots of Baja California Sur, one of them is "Bahia de Magdalena" where they actually reproduce and give birth here as well.  You can choose between Lopez Mateos or San Carlos.


I went with friends and their kids, we all are locals in Cabo and for the most majority it was our first time to do this amazing trip, but fortunately one friend have done this before and acted as the perfect guide and food adviser. We took the road in the afternoon, the idea is to get from Cabo to Ciudad Constitución, and the best advice is to drive only at day time. Roads are very narrow and you may find some cattle animals on motion... be extremely careful.

Distance from Cabo San Lucas to Ciudad Constitución is 248 miles, and that will take you approximately 4.5 hours driving. So, starting point is Cabo San Lucas, which will take about 1 hour to get to Todos Santos. Then another hour to get to La Paz, which is the capital of Baja California Sur. Keep going up and you will find a region called, "El Valle" (The Valey), Las Pocitas, Santa Rita and your destination, Ciudad Constitución. It is all a great sightseeing as it is a valley, full of many agricultural towns, you will actually see local vendors on the road, I highly recommend to stop and buy all things you see, strawberries, oranges, figs, dates, asparagus, etc. There are some amazing plantations of sunflowers, cotton, chickpeas and wheat. There are missions, old time mine towns and various eco-touristic activities to do all along the Baja, but this time we are just focusing on the Whale Watching amazing tour.


Try to stay the night at Ciudad Constitución, we found "Hotel Cuatro Misiones" very clean, good service, little hotel, only $600 pesos per night. The idea is to wake up early in the morning and get to the bay (Lopez Mateos in my case), take the boat and see the whales as soon as possible, it is better early in the morning when they are in a better mood and not many boats are bothering their babies. You can get lucky enough to touch them, it all depends on their mood. But being just 6 feet away from them it is something else! So enjoy the bay, there are many birds as well, if you are a bird person, I am telling you may want to stay there all morning. Locals are very organized there, they have enough boats, big enough for big groups, and you will pay according to the people going in your boat. I have this phone number if you want to get quotations: 613 13 70336, it is directly with the boats union. Remember to wear sunscreen, a hat, and keep your camera ready for amazing pictures. Tour normally takes 2 hours.

El Faro at Lopez Mateos
After that tour, you are free to go! You can either go farther to the north, or go back, stay in La Paz, or Todos Santos. We, decided to stay one night in La Paz, as it happened to be the weekend of the Carnaval. So you imagine, all the "Malecón" (Side walk, bordering the ocean) full of people, fair, games, food, vendors... and of course music! It was fun and we had a very good time. Carnaval in La Paz is in February. We ate at a very nice restaurant, "NIM".

Carnaval at La Paz
So I hope this gives you a better idea on what to do when planing to go and see the whales, it is really something your soul will enjoy, feeling so close to that amazing creature, just reminds you the fact that we are all, that all is us... that we are all part of an infinite universe and we shall as well, let our magnificence and peace manifests with all our environment.

#LoveWhales #LoveCabo #LiveCabo #CaboforLife



  

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