Beneath the Surface By: Maria Teresa Solomons People arrive here for an obvious purpose. Although they will insist they came purely with the hope of touching a whale another deeper desire begins to surface almost immediately. I don’t have enough fingers on both hands to count the shared conversations, even before that hoped for cetacean READ MORE ...
It’s Not Just The Whales
More Than Just Whales …at San Ignacio Lagoon By: James Dorsey While the whales are the main attraction at San Ignacio Lagoon, there is so much more to see and do when not on the water. Many people do not realize that the lagoon is a self- contained eco-system, unique in the world, and home READ MORE ...
Guide Report – San Ignacio Lagoon
Full Moon Hype By Liisa Juuti “Grrrt! Grrrt!” I’m in the climax of my jungle adventure dream, crossing a river with a wounded animal in my arms, an indigenous boy by my side and we’re trying to head to the nearest village. A big bird appears from the jungle and we start following it. “Grrrrt!” READ MORE ...
San Ignacio Lagoon Guide Report
“El Panguero” –forecasting these conditions By: Maria-Teresa Solomons March 3, 2015 A less traditional method for weather forecasting might warrant extending a wet index finger out to the elements to determine wind speed, direction and temperature including wind chill factor. However here, so you people in cyberspace have an idea about what´s happening weather wise so READ MORE ...
A Guide’s View
Guide Report San Ignacio Lagoon, BCS, Mexico Feb. 27, 2015 By: Liisa Juuti Our guests often ask me, “How come can you receive a new group just a few hours after the current group has left the camp?” The answer is, planning & coordination, great team work and very high energy and stress level. I’ll share READ MORE ...
Guide Report-San Ignacio Lagoon
San Ignacio Lagoon – Guide Report Feb. 22, 2015 by Maria-Teresa Solomons Thoughts that stir: the start of a day at the lagoon The mudflats glisten in the low morning light as I turn over at the alarm to reset it for the 3rd time perhaps. It first sounds at 5.40am when it is still READ MORE ...
Guide Report-San Ignacio Lagoon
Game for an adventure! Donna´s 81st year By Maria-Teresa Solomons Most visitors arrive at the Laguna San Ignacio by plane which lands on an isolated desert airstrip, about an hour from the Baja Ecotours camp on the “Burro” (donkey), a converted 70´s American school bus. The bus formerly named, the “cheese bus” by its kid READ MORE ...
Guide Report-San Ignacio Lagoon
Campo Cortez Update Laguna San Ignacio February 19, 2015 We have celebrated a few birthdays this week….and Maldo our camp host, also does the baking… Roberto takes Kayaks out to the beach for a kayak excursion this week. READ MORE ...
Guide Report – San Ignacio Lagoon
San Ignacio Lagoon Guide Report Gray Whales at San Ignacio Lagoon Feb 11-15 by Stephan Kolditz Our first trips were once again very successful. We were lucky enough to witness the show of a juvenile gray whale breaching twenty times in a row, quite close to the pangas ! The grays were not the only residents READ MORE ...
Freddie And The Whales
San Ignacio Lagoon Guide Report Group 2 : Report 15th by: Maria-Teresa Solomons Freddie and the Whales If you´ve never seen a real whale close-up before, like Freddie, you might have become as excited as he did as, on our fourth trip, a curious baby Gray whale weighing no more than about 1.5 tons READ MORE ...