Our main target for the Baja trip was to get up close and personal with grey whales and their pups before they take their arduous 5,000 mile journey back up to the Arctic waters for feeding. Unfortunately, Pacific waters were too dangerous for our ship, so we could only get to see them by taking vans from the Sea of Cortez across the Baja Peninsula to Bahia Magdalena on the Pacific coast. There, in little boats called prongs, we searched out "our prey" and had great fun watching them surface - and even brush against our little boat. All quite a challenge to try to get photographs. While in the Sea of Cortez, we also ran across some very, very large pods of dolphins, and LOVED seeing them off the bow of the boat as they sped in front of our ship. Unfortunately, we did not see as many whales as we had hoped, but we did enjoy the scenery around the peninsula.