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The annual migration of Gray whales bring them south from the cold waters around Alaska -where they spend the summer- to the warmer waters of Baja California for the winter. These huge, charismatic cetaceans swim almost 4000 miles south at an average of 12 miles per hour.

Once in the Mexican peninsula, around the last week of December, the gray whales begin to be in sight between Todos Santos islands and the Ensenada bay on their way south. The migration season runs from November to February but the best time to watch big concentrations of these magnificent mammals parading off the Ensenada coast is the last week of January.