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| | "Laguna San Ignacio: Lay Thine Hand Upon" him, chapter 8 from C.M. Mayo's Miraculous Air: Journey of a ... |
 | | The adult gray whale (eschrichtius robustus), a medium-sized baleen cetacean with a mottled, shoe-leather gray appearance, ranges from thirty-nine-and-a-half to forty-six feet from nose to fluke-tips, that is, the length of a four-story building laid on its side, and may weigh anywhere from fifteen to thirty tons. |
 | | Their three main calving grounds are Bahía Magdalena, Laguna San Ignacio, and Laguna Ojo de Liebre (Scammon's Lagoon); of the three, Laguna San Ignacio is the true mecca for the modern whale watcher, because there the gray whales will swim right up to the skiffs, and allow the whale watchers to touch them. |
 | | The sky had paled and was nearly white at the horizon, but Laguna San Ignacio was so blue it looked like one great brushstroke of Joan Miró cerulean. |
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