Boca de Soledad
Spy hopping, logging, rostrum, fluke, breaching, bubbling. These are some of the words that we have heard in conversations, talks, or perhaps glancing over in a book or two, but today we were able to give them images and capture them in action in our cameras, digital and film alike. Above all, we were able to capture them through our eyes in our memories and forever keep them in our hearts. For me, the day was filled with emotion not only for the excitement of the California gray whales, calves, and mothers surrounding our boats, creating an uproar in our minds, but because I see what conservation in action looks like, and I am enjoying it now in my lifetime. The effort of many it is now reflected in the numbers of whales that we see, in the open space that we enjoy, and in the reality of two countries collaborating together for the preservation not only of a species and its habitat, but of a culture and a way of living.
Everything throughout the day spelled out collaboration, the pangeros on board our Zodiacs, the fiesta dinner at night, the intense conversations, and the spark in our eyes. And for all this I will be forever grateful, not only to the people that we read about, naturalists and scientists of the Baja California Peninsula, pioneers of conservation, but to the people I know now, and I mean to all of you, for your knowledge, you curiosity and your enthusiasm, but above all to your adventurous spirit. What we witness today is also your accomplishment, as ambassadors for conservation, bringing forth the message to this adventure to your families and your communities keeping the experience alive for us all, migrants of the oceans, the gray whales, the double-crested cormorants, frigate birds, California gulls, me and you.
Spy hopping, logging, rostrum, fluke, breaching, bubbling. These are some of the words that we have heard in conversations, talks, or perhaps glancing over in a book or two, but today we were able to give them images and capture them in action in our cameras, digital and film alike. Above all, we were able to capture them through our eyes in our memories and forever keep them in our hearts. For me, the day was filled with emotion not only for the excitement of the California gray whales, calves, and mothers surrounding our boats, creating an uproar in our minds, but because I see what conservation in action looks like, and I am enjoying it now in my lifetime. The effort of many it is now reflected in the numbers of whales that we see, in the open space that we enjoy, and in the reality of two countries collaborating together for the preservation not only of a species and its habitat, but of a culture and a way of living.
Everything throughout the day spelled out collaboration, the pangeros on board our Zodiacs, the fiesta dinner at night, the intense conversations, and the spark in our eyes. And for all this I will be forever grateful, not only to the people that we read about, naturalists and scientists of the Baja California Peninsula, pioneers of conservation, but to the people I know now, and I mean to all of you, for your knowledge, you curiosity and your enthusiasm, but above all to your adventurous spirit. What we witness today is also your accomplishment, as ambassadors for conservation, bringing forth the message to this adventure to your families and your communities keeping the experience alive for us all, migrants of the oceans, the gray whales, the double-crested cormorants, frigate birds, California gulls, me and you.
