Magdalena Bay
What could possibly grant your heart more ease than the sight of a curious young gray whale and its mother turning toward you (yes, you), sitting in the small black boat in the early morning light way out here in back of nowhere in this desert of surprises. The Pacific Ocean surf pounding in the background, long strings of cormorants flying past, and these amazing whales gathered in a lagoon just like you read about. And now, one of them is so much closer than you ever believed a whale could be to a human.
Maybe you touched the soft silky yielding skin stretched over the blubber of the California gray whale, and maybe you didn’t. It doesn’t really matter. That these two species, human and whale, can come together in harmony and for a brief moment share a connection between the two worlds of earth and ocean is remarkable. More than remarkable - maybe miraculous. That connection matters. That’s what you get to bring home.
Zodiac cruises through sinuous channels lined with mangroves completed our last afternoon in beautiful and mysterious Baja California. Three coyotes slunk across the tidal flat, a green heron defiantly held its territory amongst the mangrove prop roots, and great blue herons were everywhere. What a place!
What could possibly grant your heart more ease than the sight of a curious young gray whale and its mother turning toward you (yes, you), sitting in the small black boat in the early morning light way out here in back of nowhere in this desert of surprises. The Pacific Ocean surf pounding in the background, long strings of cormorants flying past, and these amazing whales gathered in a lagoon just like you read about. And now, one of them is so much closer than you ever believed a whale could be to a human.
Maybe you touched the soft silky yielding skin stretched over the blubber of the California gray whale, and maybe you didn’t. It doesn’t really matter. That these two species, human and whale, can come together in harmony and for a brief moment share a connection between the two worlds of earth and ocean is remarkable. More than remarkable - maybe miraculous. That connection matters. That’s what you get to bring home.
Zodiac cruises through sinuous channels lined with mangroves completed our last afternoon in beautiful and mysterious Baja California. Three coyotes slunk across the tidal flat, a green heron defiantly held its territory amongst the mangrove prop roots, and great blue herons were everywhere. What a place!
