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San Diego bay area 2007 The image on the left is one of San Diego's old clipper ships that is taken out to sea at times. San Diego's coastline happens to be one of the whales passing points during their migratory trek to and from the frigid Arctic waters to the warm water lagoons of Baja California, where the females give birth to their calves. Each year, around 26,000 gray whales cruising at an average speed of five knots (about six miles per hour). |