Thanks Fred for this great video of your trip on March 12-16. Fred shows us a full accounting of our 5 day air trip to San Ignacio Lagoon and Campo Cortez to see the Gray Whales. Private flight from Tijuana directly to San Ignacio Lagoon and then mother Gray Whales nursing and playing with their READ MORE ...
Whale Watching for Kids at Laguna San Ignacio
A day of up close whale encounters unique to Laguna San Ignacio. Campo Cortez Ecolodge on the shores of San Ignacio Lagoon is proud to bring our guests up close and personal with the Pacific Gray Whales that are born in this precious lagoon. Kids especially have the best of luck with newborn Gray Whale READ MORE ...
Fresh Oysters Served at Campo Cortez
It’s our last night of a group trip at Campo Cortez and we always have a fun treat with locally grown and harvested oysters from “SOL AZUL” oyster farms here at San Ignacio Lagoon. Since we are asked about the oysters and where they come from, how they are harvested and more….we thought why not READ MORE ...
Close Encounter with a Blue Whale
It’s not often we get such a close encounter with a Blue Whale, but sometimes we are rewarded with such an interaction. On our Big Whale Trip in February, we had such an encounter. Usually, we get to see Blue Whales at a distance and that’s a treat of its own….but having one circle our READ MORE ...
Big Whale Trip in Loreto
Isla Coronado in Loreto is one of the highlights of our trip on the Sea of Cortez. It’s a volcanic lsland that also hosts a Sea Lion hang out….it’s NOT a rookery with females and babies…but a sub-adult and older male “colony” that is just a bunch of men, hanging out on a nice perch….The READ MORE ...
An Adventure of a Lifetime
We jostle and shake for four hours as we slowly make our way out to the lagoon. My daughter, Jennifer and I are travelling to see what the locals call the “desert whales” of Mexico. It is March and the road is wet and often divides into several tracks. Johnny, our driver, proceeds cautiously, as READ MORE ...
Campo Cortez Star Timelapse
The Night Sky At San Ignacio Lagoon Campo Cortez Eco-lodge Video by: John Bock READ MORE ...
Guide Report: San Ignacio Lagoon
Happy Days Report from Campo Cortez at San Ignacio LagoonGray Whale Blog & update February 17, 2017 By Lorna Kate Hill Things are really spicing up here at San Ignacio Lagoon. We now have over 200 whales in the lagoon and Campo Cortez is full! We have the Gray Whale Reseerch group visiting from Oregon READ MORE ...
Having fun at Campo Cortez!
A Video By Guides: Lorna Hill & Rodrigo Manterola READ MORE ...
An Incredible Gray Whale Video
Gray Whales At San Ignacio Lagoon Our latest video of an extraordinary (and often typical) day on the water at San Ignacio Lagoon Gray Whale Sanctuary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywu611qM04o READ MORE ...