Whale Watching

I arrived for a vacation this week in San Diego. Though I spent several years here, I never went whale watching. Each year, thousands of gray whales migrate from the Arctic Circle to lagoons off of Baja. The stay close to the shore, especially if they are pregnant or have a young calf. During January and February as many as a dozen an hour can be spotted from Cabrillo National Monument on Point Loma. Every few minutes they surface and exhale a column of warm air that looks like a spout....

The trip lasted about three hours. It is early in the season, but we saw two whales, a mother and a small calf. Apparently, they didn't make it to the lagoons in time to give birth. So it goes. It was a good time and I recommend it for anyone visiting San Diego because you get an excellent tour of the harbor.