Field Notes 2011
Laguna Guerrero Negro, Baja California, Mexico

Wildlife photographer Alejandro Boneta and his team plan to follow the whales. They will travel from Guerrero Negro over 4,000 miles along the gray whale migration route. They will take photos to show how the lives of humans and whales are intertwined, and to show the complex habitats of the whales' journey north. The team will travel at "whale speed" along the same course as the whales, from Guerrero Negro, Ensenada, Tijuana, San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Monterrey Bay, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Ancorage, and Kodiak Island, Alaska.

When the team reaches Kodiak, Alaska, they will share a message from the Mexican people, calling for protection of the gray whale migration path to protect Earth's biodiversity and keep whales safer from human activities as they migrate.

The project's photos and art works will eventually be in permanent museum and interpretive center in Guerrero Negro, SBC . The team hopes it will become a main tourist attraction and permanent sanctuary for this valuable species, the Pacific Gray Whale.