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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitefarrago" data-source="post: 2425970" data-attributes="member: 91670">I recently joined one of the `standard' 10 day cruises along Baja California out of San Diego.These have (justly, I can now say) a reputation for some of the best cetacean watching on the planet. These are offered by a number of nature travel operators from the UK, and so there isn't exactly a shortage of trip reports. However, I often find these reports don't all go into the kind of detail I might like, and they're often written in a slightly grating `we were all so happy all the time' style.I'd be happy to write something in the Trip Report section if there's interest. I'll no doubt eventually have quite a few photos taken on that trip in my gallery (the first few are up but it'll take me some time to get round to processing all of them).Highlights: Incredibly close views of blue whales, including calf/cow pairs; fin whales (not as many but equally close once or twice); grey whales in Laguna San Ignacio coming right up to the pangas (both cows and calves) - one does really interact with them which is an amazing experience in itself, some breaching and spy-hopping; humpback whales in particular on the Gorda banks doing all the usual humpback things (breaching, flipper slapping, etc); more than 1000 long-beaked common dolphins on two occasions; birds: some Baja endemics (Xantu's hummingbird, grey thrasher), fair selection of pelagic species (Laysan and black-footed albatross), pink-footed, sooty, Townsend's (only one we were happy with) and black-vented shearwater, black and least storm petrels, a few species of diver/duck/grebe/skua, etc, on migration.I'd like some indication whether people would like to see a more detailed trip report, and what in particular they'd like me to cover, before I write one.Thanks,Andrea</blockquote>

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