Visit the Coast for Whale Watching Week!

Plan a trip to the Oregon Coast for Whale watching week March 20 – 27, 2010. Oregon has a great program called “Whale Watching Spoken Here” that features 26 points on the Coast from Ilwaco WA down to Crescent City CA, and 24 points in Oregon between. These points are staffed with trained volunteers from 10AM to 1PM daily to help visitors identify and learn more about our beautiful marine mammals.

Gray Whales, the focus of Whale Watching Week  are making their return journey from their birthing grounds to their summer feeding grounds in the far north. Some whales do not travel all the way north and stay as local summer residents along the Northern California and parts of the Oregon Coast.

Gray Whales were hunted to extinction in the Atlantic and are Endangered in the Western Pacific. Thanks to protections by the Mexican Government, the United Nations and finally a whaling moratorium in the eighties, the Gray Whale has made a good recovery in the Eastern Pacific and were removed from the Endangered list in 1994, though they are still considered “threatened.”

Don’t miss this opportunity to view the gentle giants of the deep! They are truly an awe inspiring sight.