Arid Lands Newsletter--link to home page No. 43, Spring/Summer 1998
Ecotourism in Drylands

Ecotourism and the desert whale: Whale watching in Magdalena Bay

[Note: Picture copyright Marilyn Kazmers / SharkSong.]

The town of Puerto Lopez Mateos is one of the most popular locations for whale watching excursions in Magdalena Bay, because it is in the narrowest part of the Bay where the whales are easiest to reach. This boatload of tourists has succeeded in getting "up close and personal" with one of the gray whales resident in the Bay.Watching a gray whale up close

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