Incredible Cabo San Lucas Whale Migration

The first week in November, we traveled to our place in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, the Pacific side. We planned to vacation, enjoy my famous nephew photographer and his lovely wife, and conduct a photo shoot on the beach for the cover of my next book in the Sexy at Sixty series.

The last play day of our visit, we witnessed the most massive California Gray Whale migration imaginable. We glanced up from the pool to see the spouts of Gray Whales fill the blue Pacific from the shoreline to as far as the eye could see. It was unbelievable! The event lasted for over a period of a couple of hours, which means that there had to be hundreds of thousands of whales!

The spouts of the whales are very high, and they blast out into a spray that rises in the air up to 15 feet. The whoosh from the spout is so powerful that it can be heard up to a half mile away on a calm day. They spout a few times, and then dive again. The number of times they spout depends on how long they spent in the dive.

The California Gray Whales swim eight thousand miles from the Bering Sea in Alaska to the Sea of Cortez in Baja California to give birth to their calves and grow fat on the plankton in the enriched Sea of Cortez. They vacation in the bays and inlets off of Cabo until they give birth to their calves.

The newborn whales are about 15 feet long, and weigh around 1500 pounds. The adults are 40 to 50 feet in length, and weigh up to 73,000 pounds. The calf's blubber grows from the cow's 50% fat milk. The calf cavorts with its mother in the warm lagoon, and grows stronger swimming against the ocean current. When it needs to rest, it rests on top of its mother. When the calf reaches 19 feet in length, and around 3000 pounds, the cow and calf depart to return to their northern destination in the spring.

Every year, I've seen an occasional whale, but I've never witnessed a migration of this size. It was exhilarating and astonishing! God grows bigger in my eyes every day. I was struck with awe at the design of the perfect ways of our Creator.