Tour Gray Whales In Baja California Close And Personal | Visit Mexico, United States of America

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Enjoy spacious 10’ X 14’ square sided canvas tents or the 12’ diameter yurt style canvas tents. The tents are furnished with beds with real mattresses and pillows. Blankets and comforters provide a warm and comfortable night’s sleep. There are clothing hanging rods and wire basket style drawers for storing your clothing. Fluffy shower robes and slippers are also available in each tent. This is a safari style camp with individual tents grouped around a large dining and meeting tent. Unlike African tented safari camps our camp must be completely taken down and no signs of our camp remain at the end of the whale migration season. Showers are gas heated fully pressurized providing instant hot water on demand. There is an attached changing room to the showers affording privacy and plenty of space to dress outside of the wet shower stall area. Toilets are flush style like you might have in your home but operate using salt water instead of fresh water. The shower and toilet facilities are shared and located near the tents - distance depending on which tent you stay in. Upon request for a small fee we can provide an RV self contained water flushing toilet in your tent. Our staff maintains these daily to ensure all is fresh and clean in your tent.

Meals

We provide 3 excellent meals each day in our dining tent or elsewhere if the itinerary has you on the road or on a boat at meal time. Standard American - English or mexican breakfasts by individual order. lunches are simple usually sandwiches, tacos or burgers with green salads always available. Dinners are set meals with each meal having an individual theme such as chocolate flavored dishes, cactus, seafood and our mexican traditional mexican night. We can accommodate almost any special diet requirements without added cost or hassle for you.

Transport

Our trip originates when we meet you at the hotel in San Diego. From there you will be transported by van or passenger vehicle across the USA/mexico border to the town of Ensenada. From Ensenada we arrange for your flight by a small regional airline to the town of Guerrero Negro. This flight is included in the trip cost. Upon arrival in Guerrero Negro you are met by a driver and transported about one hour to the shoreside camp.

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Day 1 Day 1: Guerrero Negro
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Guerrero Negro

Our meeting and tour origination point is San Diego, California. You will depart San Diego via a comfortable van crossing the USA/Mexico border to Ensenada MX about 1 1/2 hour drive. From Ensenada you will fly on a small regional scheduled airline from Ensenada Airfield to Guerrero Negro, about a two hour flight. Upon arrival in Guerrero Negro our camp guide and driver meet your flight and transport you one hour through the desert to our shoreside camp. Once at our safari style camp we will get you settled into a comfortable 10’ X 14’ cabin side tent or a 12’ diameter yurt style tent. Tent accommodations include comfortable beds with real mattresses, blankets, comforters and pillows. We provide fluffy robes and shower slippers. There are rugs on the floor at the sides of the beds. We include basket style drawers and a clothing rod for hanging a few articles of clothing. Our tents sit within yards of the bay’s edge. You can hear water lapping along the shore in the evening. Evenings when the afternoon off shore wind dies down we can usually hear sleeping gray whales breathing in the night. You will have a couple hours to explore the shore and desert around our camp before sitting down to a nice dinner in our military style dining tent.
Day 2 Day 2: Guerrero Negro
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Guerrero Negro

What people visit our remote location for is to get very close to some of the world’s largest animals, the gray whales. Sometimes called the Friendly Whales of Baja, the gray whales migrate annually between the sub-arctic waters off of Canada and the USA south to Baja Mexico. Here in the three nursery lagoons of Baja California Sur the gray whales rest, give birth, mate and eventually in late March or April they swim north again. Today you will undertake two small boat whale watching trips. Each trip is one and one half hours in length and controlled by the strict government regulations designed to protect the whales from too much whale watching pressure. Your day begins with breakfast at 7:00 am. We like to go out to the whales early because there is usually an afternoon wind blowing offshore. Our first boat usually leaves the dock around 8:30 am. With the time for boarding, getting off the boat, and getting back to our camp about a half mile from the dock you will arrive back to camp after the first boat trip around 11:00 and relax for a few minutes before lunch. Tonight excited voices will be heard inside the dining tent as your now close companions relive the excitement of the past three days of whale watching. We serve special set meals at dinner which include our chocolate oriented night, a seafood feast, a really excellent authentic traditional Mexican and our special meal featuring several cactus based dishes,
Day 3 Day 3: Guerrero Negro
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Guerrero Negro

Days two and three are similar in itinerary. Each of these three days includes two whale watching boat trips. By the second day your group will almost surely had one or more really close encounters with the gray whales. Each day after the first boat trip our lunch is generally simple soup, salad and sandwiches or taco plates of beef and fish tacos or perhaps burgers and hot dogs just depending on the day and the group make up. We always have a fruit bowl available for breakfast and lunch. After lunch and time for personal business we leave again for our second boat trip of the day. Generally we arrive at the dock between 12:30 and 1:30 pm. After two exhilarating whale watching trips we find our guests are ready for a bit of quiet or relaxing down time. Some choose to sit outside their tents along the shore and watch the whales from the comfort of a folding chair. Others want to wade out into the finger inlet adjacent to our camp and probe for clams or scallops. While others will want to go out exploring or bird watching. With nearly 200 species regularly spotted around the lagoon in February and March this is a great place for birding. You come hoping to have that wonderful experience of having a mother and baby whale approach your boat so close you could reach out and touch them if you wanted. We have 25 years experience operating our whale watching in the Baja Lagoons. 99.7% of all our groups over this 25 years have had the opportunity to get close enough to touch a wild whale! By the end of today your third full day of whale watching you will be feeling like a whale expert. You probably have hundreds of photos and long reels of video recordings to review on quiet evenings back home. Today if your whale watching luck holds true you could even come upon a group of mating whales. This can create the most spectacular splashing and racing by the mating groups as the males maneuver to get in position with the fast moving female.
Day 4 Day 4: San Diego
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: San Diego

Today is departure day from our shoreside camp. Breakfast is served promptly at 7:00 am in preparation for an early departure to the airfield in Guerrero Negro. On the way home to San Diego you will follow about the same route as on the way down. The flight north occasionally stops for a quick 15 minute pick up offshore at Cedros Island. Then continues on to Ensenada. Flight time about 2 hours once again. Upon landing in Ensenada at around 10:00 am you will be met by our border crossing driver. When crossing south we use the Tijuana border crossing. Going north we change and cross the border at Tecate, the hometown of Tecate Beer. The border crossing is generally not too lengthy with average time in the border crossing line at around 45 minutes to one hour. Once across the border and back into the USA you have an approximate one and a half hour ride back to our meeting point. The meeting point hotel is only a few minutes drive from the San Diego International Airport. People leave this trip feeling as if they have accomplished one of the best holidays they have ever had. For some this trip can be life changing.

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Gray Whales In Baja California Close And Personal

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Day 1: Guerrero Negro

Day 2: Guerrero Negro

Day 3: Guerrero Negro

Day 4: San Diego

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