Its whale watching season off the California coast. Here is a excerpt about the Grey Whale migration from WhaleRoute.com
“Eastern North Pacific gray whales make a mammoth 20,000 km (12,400 mile) round trip between their southern breeding grounds off Baja California, Mexico and their northern feeding grounds off Alaska and the Beaufort Sea.
April – November: Arctic feeding grounds
[October - February: migrates south]
December – April: Mexican breeding grounds
[February - July: migrates north]
In the early winter, they move south to breed in the warm, shallow lagoons along the Mexican coast. The most popular breeding lagoons are San Ignacio lagoon, Scammon’s lagoon, and Magdalena Bay, on the Pacific coast of Baja California, Mexico. Around February, the grays migrate north to feed in Arctic waters (western Beaufort Sea and Bering Sea), northwest of Alaska. A few – mainly younger – whales make a shorter journey north from Mexico, stopping off along the coastline stretching between northern California, Oregon, Washington State, USA, and British Columbia, Canada. Some feeding behaviour has been observed in all parts of the range, and around Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, grays are present year-round.”
A great place to what whales is Mendocino county, from Gualala to Fort Bragg and the many stops in between. A great place to find out more about Mendocino County is http://www.visitmendocino.com/. They can point you to places to stay, eat, relax and have fun.
My wife and I have made many trips to Mendocino and other great coastal spots. You can see some of the photo take along California’s coast here My Travel Photos wish there where some photos of whale in there, maybe this year we will get shots. I got some shot of whales in alaska, but they were very far away, so I did not post any of those.
