Ensenada Whale Watching in Baja

In Ensenada whale watching is one of the most stunning spectacles run by Nature.

You look out over the water watching and waiting. Then you see it. A whale spouts... Suddenly the huge whale breaches the surface of the sea with tremendous force.

Whale Watching Tours in Ensenada, Baja.

The whale migration season runs from November to February but the best time to watch big concentrations of these magnificent mammals parading off the Ensenada coast is the last week of January.

The migration back north runs from mid February to May.

Migration
Gray whales migrate every year from the cold waters around Alaska -where they spend the summer- to the warmer waters of Baja California in winter.

These huge, charismatic cetaceans swim almost 4000 miles south at an average of 12 miles per hour.

Once in the Mexican peninsula, around the last week of December, the gray whales begin to be in sight between Todos Santos islands and the Ensenada bay on their way south.

The whales arrive at their Baja destination: the lagoons located in Baja California Sur such as Ojo de Liebre lagoon, known also as Scammon's lagoon, and San Ignacio lagoon where they give birth.

Only one calf is born from each female after a 14 month gestation.

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