Ballenas Grises de Laguna San Ignacio
Reporte de GuiaGrupo del 1 de
Febrero hasta al 5 de Febrero, 2014De Rubi Gabriela Moreno Cordero
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El primer dia del grupo salimos a observar ballenas en un
dia calido, era la primera vez
que
la mayoria de la gente tendria contacto con las ballenas, 3 chicas procedentes
de San Diego quienes felices y divertidas emprendieron el viaje, cantamos
diferentes
en ingles y espanol, la
ballenas como siempre respondieron amistosamente a nuestro llamado dandonos
pectaculo sin igual, brincando, espiandonos, y apareandose alrededor de nuestra
embarcacion, las madres y sus crias que todavia son muy pequenas estubieron un
poco ausentes ya que temeresos de que sus bebes sean lastimos por la isistencia
de los machos por aparearlas, vimos un par de ellas en que no desearon
asercarse ala embarcacion pero permitian verlas a lo lejos.
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En el Segundo dia de observacion se nos unieron el resto del
grupo que esperavamos con anticipacion, gente guiada magnificamente por uno de
nuestros guias mas experto, el Sr.
Jim Dorsey, quien nos informava de las invastigaciones mas recientes
sobre Ballena Gris.
despues de un
delicioso lunch hecho por las cosinaras locales quienes cada temporada nos
agazajan con los platillos regionals y las tortillas hecha a mano,
al tesalirminar tal festin, salimos en
la embarcacion hacia el area de observacion, algo que capto definitivamente mi
atencion, fue el comportamiento de uno de los machos que estando en pleno
apariamiento
saco su inmesa cola
soteniendo por largos segundos en el aire, asiendo muestra de su fuerza y
vigorocidad, dandonos tiempo de las mas espectaculares fotos, landonos como es
la costumbre un gran dia.
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Al final de la estancia de cada grupo, siempre hay
sentimientos encontados, por un lado el placer de haber conocido gente tan
interesante y sencible, procedentes de diferente partes del mundo generando un
enriquecido intercambio de culturas y conocimiento, por otra parte un poco
tristes de ver partir a
nuestros
visitantes, que con lagrimas en los ojos se despiden deseando quedarse un poco
mas para seguir disfrutando de esta experiencia unica de vida, que en muchos de
los casos vuelven a visitarnos al ano siguiente con mas amigos, creando asi un
bello lazo de Amistad, pasando a formar parte de la gran F
amilia
Lagunera
Ballenera.
Report
Translated to English:
The
first day of the group we went out to go whale watching on a warm day, it was
the first time that the majority of the people would have contact with the
whales, 3 girls from San Diego who happy and fun they embarked on the journey,
we sing different in English and Spanish, the whales as always responded to our
call friendly, giving to us their pectoral fins without equal, skipping, syp-hopping,
and prurient around our boat, the mothers and their offspring that are still
very small hectares a little absent since they are caring of their babies by
the and there are many strong mating male whales that come close to them, we
saw a couple of them that did not wish to come close with our boat but allowed
them in the distance.
On our
second day of observation another group joined the rest of the group, guided by
one of our guides magnificently by expert, Mr. Jim Dorsey, who informed us the most
recent investigations of the Gray Whales. After a delicious lunch made by our
local cooks who each season they amaze us with regional dishes and tortilla
made by hand, to the amazement such feast, went out in the boat towards the
observation area, something that I definitely caught my attention, was the
behavior of one of the males that being in full mating put his “penis” in the
air holding for long seconds in the air, a gripping display of their strength
and veracity, giving us time of the more spectacular pictures, making this as
the custom is a great day.
At
the end of the stay of every group, there are always feelings bewilderment, on
the one hand the pleasure of having known the so interesting people and
sensitive people coming from all parts of the world generating an enriched
exchange of cultures and knowledge, on the other hand a little sad of seeing
setting off our visitors, who with tears in the eyes say goodbye wanting to
remain a little more to keep on enjoying this only experience of life, which in
many of the cases they visit again to us to the following year with more
friends, creating so beautiful bonds of friendship, happening(passing) to be
part of the big Family Lagunera Ballenera
Splashing
became the theme of Campo Cortez this week. The babies are getting bigger and
the mothers have begun to approach the boats to say hello. Mothers and babies
spend most of their time at San Ignacio training for the journey back up to
Alaska, but even that does not stop them from coming up to see the boats once
in a while. There were a few people who were able to touch the whales, and they
spent the rest of the time rolling around under the boat. 
The 7th
of February we celebrated Maldo’s birthday (for those of you who do not know Maldo--he's the camp Jefe or Chief and makes everything happen-you will son know Maldo). There was plenty of cake for all
and music to accompany the fiesta. The family was able to surprise Maldo by
walking into the palapa singing and carrying a cake. After that he gave
everyone a talk about the history of Campo Cortez and the way it has grown. He
talked about how the camp has developed into one of the top environmental camps
in Mexico. 
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