Changes By Lorna Hill 27th March 2016 Things are starting to feel different here now. Spring has well and truly sprung; the days are warmer and longer, the Osprey chicks have hatched, the baby whales are very big and strong now, almost ready for their journey North. We are still experiencing great interaction from the READ MORE ...
Guide Report: San Ignacio Lagoon: March 20, 2016
Eye of the Whale March 20th 2016 by Lorna Hill There is something really special about making eye contact with a whale. Well, any creature really, even a human! But when you’re in a boat, floating along the water and suddenly a whale pops their head out of the water to do what READ MORE ...
Guide Report – San Ignacio Lagoon: Mar. 18, 2016
“El Panguero” –forecasting these conditions by: Maria-Teresa Solomons 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 you chose READ MORE ...
Guide Report: San Ignacio Lagoon, March 16, 2016
The Present By: Lorna Hill 16 March 2016 Every day on this earth is a precious gift however sometimes, when you least expect it, the universe opens up and presents you with a gift that sends your spirits soaring through the clouds. The last couple of weeks here at the camp have been eventful; not READ MORE ...
Guide Report: San Ignacio Lagoon, February 28, 2016
Sunday, 28 February 2016 By: Lorna Hill Mindfulness gratefulness Over time I began to realize more and more my responsibility and role at the camp. There were many roles expected from us here at the camp, those including meeting and greeting the guests, showing them to their cabañas, showing them how things worked at the READ MORE ...
Guide Report: San Ignacio Lagoon, February 26, 2016
Sunday, 26 February 2016 By: Lorna Hill Mindfulness gratefulness Over time I began to realize more and more my responsibility and role at the camp. There were many roles expected from us here at the camp, those including meeting and greeting the guests, showing them to their cabañas, showing them how things worked at the READ MORE ...
Guide Report: San Ignacio Lagoon, February 20, 2016
20th February 2016 By Maria Teresa Solomons A Journey of Transformation It began with the sound of scratching on the ceiling of my camper, a light-footed, scratching which then crossed the ceiling and down onto the sides of the van to where the windows and mirrors are, like the sound of small scratchy branches blowing READ MORE ...
Guide Report: San Ignacio Lagoon February 16, 2016
Guide Report Campo Cortez, San IgnacioLagoon By: Rodrigoro Manterola Week 2 The song remains the same… Although most of the gray whale sounds are not audible for us humans due to the frequency (lower frequency sounds) they, like all cetaceans, have a complex communication system. Blue whales songs can travel across the ocean while humpback READ MORE ...
Guide Report: San Ignacio Lagoon: Feb.12,2016
Friday 12th February 2016 By Lorna Hill La Vida en la Laguna The new group brought with them a new weather pattern and moon cycle. The cold, gusty winds were replaced by calm, sunny days and the new moon meant high, swollen tides. The water would come right into the camp and created a shallow READ MORE ...
Guide Report: San Ignacio Lagoon, February 8, 2016
Guide Report Feb. 08, San Ignacio Lagoon By: Rodrigoro Manterola Hundreds of thousands of empty clam shells on the ground welcomed us to San Ignacio Lagoon, a reminder of ancient times not so long ago when uncontrolled fishing and a lacking in regulations depleted the area of all catalina clams, an endemic species that struggles READ MORE ...