Now is the time of the year that both humans and the great whales are planning and departing on their winter migrations to the Baja Peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. Perhaps the reasons are more similar than we might yet know for this dual migration. In the desert the late summer rains have already begun to bring forth a greener than usual landscape and the hope for a spectacular early spring wildflower season are very promising. On the sea the water is rapidly cooling and the winter el Norte winds occasionally blow.


  

The humans are packing up their vans and RV's and the whales are simply swimming.  The humans are communicating with one another over the computer and telephone, the whales are doing this directly over vast distances, with their long carrying low vocalizations.  But without err both the humans and the whales are making their way to this dynamic place where the desert and the mountains meets the glorious sea.  At times the humans may actually see the migrating whales from their vehicles while traveling and the whales may see or hear the vehicles on the coastal roads.  As the rulers of the sea and of the land respectively our species and them the great ones interestingly are heading the same way at the same time, to the same place, and will depart for the northerly return more or less at the same time, going more or less to the same place.

Once again there exists a window of opportunity for us to visit with them in the winter home that many of us and many of them have come to love and have come to call our "temporary home"- the Sea of Cortez!