Emily's Musings

Whale Watch

Shachar and I went on a whale watch today from Montery on the "Sur Randy".

Apparently, each winter, gray whales migrate south from Alaska to their calving grounds off Baja California. In spring, they return with their calves to their feeding grounds off Alaska. Since we're in early spring, there were a few slow-pokes going South and a few early ones already heading back North. January's probably the ideal time, but we spotted at least one pod of two or three whales (and either saw some other ones or those same ones a couple of times) They're great fun to spot because you really do see the spurt of water and then have time to all rush to that side of the boat in time to see the whale's back and then the very cool tail flip by.