Binocular-toting whale-watchers gather north of the adjacent lighthouse between December and April when the Pacific gray whales embark on their fascinating and arduous migration from Alaska to Mexico. Inside are fun exhibits for boning up on the specifics. You'll also glimpse giant mako shark fossils, and Tongva ceramics and arrowheads. Picnic beneath palm trees and stroll along the blufftop trail.
2014 was a particularly good year for baleen types. According to the American Cetacean Society – an organization that tracks whale migrations – over 2000 whales were tracked migrating up and down the Southern California coast between December 2013 and April 2014. Most were gray whales, but they spotted some humpbacks and sperm whales, and orcas too.
