Gray Whales of San Ignacio Lagoon
Guide Report
March 21-25
By: Hayley Carmody
We just finished
another very busy week at Campo Cortez full of interesting people from all over
the world. People hear about the gray whales being friendly in San Ignacio Lagoon,
but it is truly an experience that picture and videos cannot do justice. It is
something that does not get old, and will always move you. Every group asks me
if this job gets old, but the whales are healing and make everything worth it.
Each time a whale approaches the boat I become giddy and cannot stop laughing
and loving every move these animals make.
Campo Cortez is a
leader of ecotourism in Mexico. On the final night of the groups Maldo gives a
talk on Campo Cortez. He has been taking people out to see the whales for 28
years and has run Campo Cortez for 15 years. All of the people who live in this
lagoon are the stewards of the wildlife. Maldo camp is one of the few places in
all of Baja to obtain an eco-friendly certification. This involved around 2
years of work where Maldo and his family redid the camp so that everything is
recycled and reused. Maldo passes this love for the environment to everyone in
his family and all the visitors to the lagoon. It is because of people like him
that this tourism has developed in such a pure and beautiful way.
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