Desert Whales

Season 13 Episode 1

San Ignacio Lagoon is the home to the peninsula’s most famous visitors—the Gray Whales.

Each winter, pregnant females, and lustful males swim five thousand miles from the Arctic to visit this lagoon. Here, within a few hundred square miles, eighty percent of the majestic whales’ life cycle transpires. Observe feeding, nursing, teaching, cuddling, and courtship from a tiny fishing boat just a few feet away.