Whale Watching Tours

Whale Watching Trips

The activity of whale watching has enthralled spectators for a long time but it is a recent phenomenon that more and more people are thinking of opting for whale watching trips as part of their vacation plans. Whoever has been able to go on a whale watching tour will be witness to the fact that this activity has a lot to offer both in terms of awareness and entertainment, because it presents you with the opportunity of assessing the behavior of whales while watching them play and splash in the water. More number of whales is now being spotted in the eastern North Pacific during whale watching tours than ever had been in history. Despite of a debate being there amongst scientists abut actual numbers, the presence of innumerous whales seen in Baja California and in Hawaii is clearly a suggestion of the fact that there have been a sudden miraculous increase in the number of these sea mammals and consequently a rise in the success of the business of whale watching.

All over the world people of all ages would love to have an experience as special as a whale watching tour. That is because these tours offer you with chance of spotting whales, the largest animals on earth, dive into the water and jump out, much to the amusement of spectators. The specialty of whale watching trips lies in the fact that these help you to see more to the character of whales than just ferocity. Apart from this, such trips can actually become a great source of knowledge for everyone. Among all the places in the world that are bestowed with natural coastlines, California is perhaps the best region to get sight of the largest mammal. Whether it is the gray whale, the blue whale, the humpback whale or the killer whale, California offers you an eclectic mixture. On a whale watching tour you can behold the magnificence of gray whales that happen to migrate in the time period between December and May. While they have their summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea, Baja California acts as their winter breeding grounds. If you want to take a better look at gray whales the best place to visit in California is Monterey Bay.

Whale watching trips effectively transport you to the world of blue whales. This species of whales are endangered and to the utter dismay of environmentalists the number is going down steadily. The size of the average blue whale is mammoth and is somewhere between 70 to 90 feet, though exceptions may also be bigger than 100 feet. Whenever they are sighted they are either seen moving individually or traveling in small groups. Whale watching tours also gives you the opportunity to catch sight of killer whales or orcas that are continually eyeing the newborn of other whale species. In most cases they are foreign and are actually passing along when sightings are made. A San Diego whale watching tour can be even more enjoyable because whale behavior can be detected most closely in this part of California. Seeing a whale dive in more than 100 feet followed by a series of shallow dives is the beast part of a San Diego whale watching tour.

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