The months of January through March, are perfect for watching the great behemoths of the sea on their annual journey frolicking in the waters and often spouting off shore. Many of the whales that feed in northern waters migrate south to Baja California each year, including grey whales and humpback whales.

Between mid to late fall the whales make the longest migration of any mammal. 6,000 mile journey from their summer homes in the Bering and Chukchi Seas between Alaska and Siberia, to winter in the warm waters of Baja California and the Sea of Cortez. Gray whales (known as well as the Pacific gray, California gray or grayback) seek areas such as the lagoons of San Ignacio, Scammon’s, Ojo de Liebre and Magdalena Bay to have calves.

Many whale-watching excursions set off from various points in Los Cabos to watch these great creatures from afar. Visitors often come upon a mother and her newborn calf shooting the signature cascades of water through their blowholes as they come up for air, spyhopping (when their heads emerge and they turn in a circle to look around) and breaching with great splashes into the warm ocean.

Other ecotourism organizations offer kayak tours to paddle the warm lagoons where many of the young are born and learn to swim and feed.

Bottom-feeding grays are harmless shore lovers who dedicate their lives to traveling, They were once seen in Europe and in Asia but now can only be seen in the North Pacific, Siberia, Alaska and South to Mexico.