Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
On the shores of the San Ignacio Lagoon in South Baja California, Mexico, we find a fittingly enormous geoglyph of a female gray whale and her calf.
The San Ignacio Lagoon is part of the Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve which is Mexico’s most recent wildlife refuge. This giant drawing is probably part of the Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaíno, where Grey Whales and many other species live and breed, undisturbed and in a protected environment.
Thanks to Julio Izquierdo.
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FYI, from tip to tail, it is nearly 2000 feet!
How do you know it is a female whale?
Looks like semitransparent black marker on the negatives to me, but Baja pilot “Captain Mike” says he’s seen it from the air. I do wonder if someone at Digital Globe touched up the actual lines.
I was there camped at Kuyimita (www.kuyima.com) just to the West along the water this spring and nobody mentioned the whale outline.
Jim