LA JOLLA–Live a whale tale this winter and experience the annual epic journey of gray whales with Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
Enjoy daily local whale-watching cruises featuring aquarium naturalists as well as whale-watching expeditions to Baja California, Mexico.
Witness the longest mammal migration in the world, when approximately 20,000 gray whales pass San Diego on their 10,000-mile round-trip journey from Bering Sea feeding grounds to Baja’s lagoons, where they play, rest, breed and give birth.
Bring warm clothing and binoculars.
Daily whale watching cruises begins December 26 from 9:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and 1:30 to 5 p.m. with Flagship Cruises and Events.
Cost is $35 weekdays and $40 weekends; aquarium members $30 daily; seniors and military; $30 weekdays and $35 weekends; youth (4 to 12 with paid adult) $17.50 weekdays and $20 weekends. School groups (Monday-Thursday a.m. cruise only) $13.50 per person
To RSVP, call Flagship Cruises and Events at (619) 234-4111, or online at www.flagshipsd.com