Learn about whale watching from the Los Angeles Times:
“I’ve rarely experienced more joy in nature than in witnessing these magnificent creatures breach,” Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa told me recently. “It gives you a tremendous sense of awe.”
…“Being able to touch and pet a whale is an experience beyond description,” said Long Beach resident Chuck Cover, who stroked a young gray whale during a visit to Scammon’s Lagoon, about 450 miles south of San Diego. “They look straight at you when they surface. You feel like you’re communicating with them.”