Theres a Whale In Your Backyard | Speaker: John Kipping

For untold centuries California Gray Whales have completed some of the longest annual migrations of any aquatic mammal, swimming from winter’s mating and calving lagoons in Baja California to summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea. These thirty- five- to forty-foot-long leviathans often pass very close to headlands such as Pacifica’s Pedro Point. Join John Kipping, a naturalist and former Shelter Cove resident, as he takes us on this remarkable journey from the northern polar region to Baja and back.

Bio: John Kipping is a naturalist who has led over fifty expeditions to Baja California in search of these fascinating creatures. Kipping has worked at the Randall Museum and Golden Gate Park’s Botanical Gardens and later Audubon Canyon Ranch. He taught at University of California Extensions at Berkeley, Los Angeles, Davis, and Santa Cruz. Currently John spends his summers in South-East Alaska leading shipboard cruises in search of whales, bears and glaciers.