Guide Report
San Ignacio lagoon, Baja Ca. Sur. Mexico
Campo Cortez at Laguna San Ignacio
Report: March 01 thru 05, 2013
By: Pamela Sanchez
Awesome sunshine and heat! This group had the
most amazing luck with the weather… from the winter; it seems that we had moved
to summer without a doubt! We have enjoyed the beautiful grey whales on
t-shirts and believe me that is the first for me! The lagoon gave us a break
from the bad wind and surprised us with a calm and still water that was epic!
And as you can imagine, with good weather, we have found more active babies,
playing nicely in the surface, jumping and trying to breach, while mama stays
close to help him with anything. It is beautiful to see how this behaviour encourages
the mothers to become playful and roll, jump and play with both, their babies
and us! How lucky are we?
I am sure some of you will be happy to know
that on the 2nd of this month, some captain saw CUCARACHAAAAAAA!
Apparently he was with his mother at the end of the lagoon, close to the moth
where it meets with the sea. Maybe that is the reason why we have not been able
to see him for all these days! It is nice to know we can keep hoping to meet
him once more before he goes away! Miss you so much little character!
The lagoon is nearly free of erotic behaviour…
The adults that came to mate here, are already going away and we have reach the
point where the change from activity is already taking place. Now it is time
for the mothers and babies to colonise all the space! And from now on, that is exactly
what it is going to happened! The possibility of encountering a “friendly
whale” increases just because they are the only ones left here! I should tell
you that sometimes, males arras females with babies even when they are not
sexually receptive and that in our whale watcher point of view is not good
news! It makes the mothers and their babies to run away and stress them
unnecessarily. From now on it will be just you little ones, your mothers and
US! Let’s enjoy!
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