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WHALE WATCHING. California is one of the only places in the world where visitors can see whales year-round, and there's no better place for whale watching than Monterey. While in many areas whale watchers have to go far from shore to see a whale, along the Monterey coast whales can sometimes be seen offshore with the naked eye.
Whale Watching at Bodega Head - What to Look for and When: January: The Sonoma Coast Whale Watch at Bodega Head starts in January, when the Gray whales are headed south from their feeding grounds in the frigid waters by Alaska, to the subtropical waters of the lagoons and bays of Baja California, where they go to mate and nurse their young.