But now that may come to a halt. I don't know what the Mexican government is thinking. I just can't figure it out. A guide to viewing sea life along the Central Coast. Getting there requires navigating two hours of treacherous road through an area which ESSA describes as barren and worthless.
Peregrine falcons thrive there, as do endangered pronghorn antelope and black sea turtles.
It is home to one of the West Coast's largest brown-pelican rookeries. But as far as nature-lovers are concerned, the whales are what the place is really about. It would require pumping millions of gallons of water from the lagoon out across an area the size of San Jose. The salt left behind after the evaporation process would be scraped up with bulldozers and trucked to a mile-long pier at the mouth of the lagoon. It would then be shipped by barge to Japan and the United States, where it would be used in producing plastic and road salt and in other industrial processes.