Published on Wednesday, January 13, 2010
By Daily Breeze Staff Writer
When Dorothy Kimura of Torrance was asked to go on a whale watch trip on the Toronado out of Pierpoint Landing in Long Beach, she thought it would be nothing more than a boat ride.
Friends had told her the whales were all off Mexico. Still, she and Josh Klein put a group of eight together and headed down to Pierpoint Landing on Sunday.
Kimura's friends were partially right. Gray whales are due in Mexico, but since Alaska Air doesn't offer cetaceans air service, they do have to swim past Southern California.
Gray whales are headed for the warm-water lagoons of Baja California from the Bering Sea. Gray whales have the longest known migration of any mammal. They travel 10,000 to 12,000 miles round trip every year between their winter calving lagoons in Baja and their summer feeding grounds in the frigid Bering Sea. The migration route is very close to the coast, allowing whale watch boats and excellent opportunity to observe these magnificent creatures
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