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Dr Steven Swartz and his partner and wife, MaryLou Jones, had their first date on Searcher, back in their early days of gray whale research and courtship! These days we are so glad to have Steven aboard each year to provide transport down to his research camp on the shores of Laguna San Ignacio, where he and his students and Mexican counterparts conduct a full range of research.

Please visit their web site at: http://lsiecosystem.org/ and consider a donation as we do.

Last trip, Steven was aboard to share his experiences with our passengers. This trip we will be delivering letters written by San Diego schoolchildren for sharing with the children of Laguna San Ignacio, another wonderful arm of Steven’s work and Ocean Connectors in this magical place where gray whales and people come together.

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(photo is our newest naturalist–Julie Kondor!)

Please forgive the lack of recent blogs…we are busy getting the boat and ourselves ready for the start to our Baja Whalewatching tour season. The first tour and the lucky 25 passengers are set to leave on Tuesday, February 7. You can be sure we will be adding posts DAILY from that day on.

With ideal winter weather (cross fingers it continues) and record sightings of migrating gray whales, orcas in Southern California, a satellite-tagged western gray whale coming over to the eastern Pacific, and loads of other marine-related news, we are really excited to share all this with our passengers! The first trips’ naturalists are Marc Webber (coming in from snowy Alaska) and Paul Jones (just a hop, skip and a jump away in San Francisco bay area), plus our stellar Searcher crew, we are READY to ROLL (well, maybe we need a bit of food aboard first!)

Please stay tuned and check back often!

celia