Nothing like this exists anywhere else in the world: a wild gray whale, 49 feet, and 90,000 lbs, comes directly up to your small boat in the middle of a vast lagoon on the Pacific Ocean, looks you right in the eye, and helps its baby (25 feet long) get petted by the folks with you. It is an emotional experience, and why I have kept coming back for over 20 years. 

One hundred years ago, this lagoon ran red with their blood, but in our lifetime they began seeking human interaction and continue to do so. Traveling 6000 miles from their feeding grounds in the Bering Sea, they arrive at a few lagoons on the west coast of the Baja peninsula to mate and bear their young in these warm waters. It is the longest migration of any mammal on the planet.