Whales of Cabo
Planning
Cabo, Baja California, Mexico
Not open yet
The moment behind the mission
On a trip near Cabo in Baja California, Mexico, One Journey’s founder saw a whale through a drone with fishing equipment caught on it. That encounter stayed with us. It gave our first project a place, a purpose and a reason to begin.
Whales of Cabo is the project we are creating in response. Our focus is the whales in these waters: sharing what we witnessed, raising awareness of entanglement, and developing a practical way to support their protection with qualified local guidance.
The project is in development. We are not a wildlife rescue team, and no intervention, fieldwork or outcome for this whale is being claimed.
The encounter / Original photographs
Three photographs from our founder’s drone near Cabo. The full frames are shown here, including the fishing equipment trailing behind the whale.
We do not know the eventual outcome for this whale. These images document the encounter, not a rescue.
From our camera
A mother and calf filmed on the trip near Cabo. This is a separate sighting, not footage of a rescue or the entangled whale’s recovery.
Original footage supplied by our founder. This clip has no recorded audio. The sightings inspired the project; they are not documentation of completed conservation work.
The direction, not a finished promise
Whales in Cabo are the focus. The first practical activity, any local collaborators, exact field sites, budget and dates still need to be confirmed.
Seek guidance from qualified people working with whales in the Cabo area to understand the needs and where a new project could responsibly help.
Use our original whale photographs and footage to build an awareness campaign rooted in Cabo, without implying a rescue or confirmed outcome.
Explain the confirmed activity, costs and how contributions would be used before opening project donations.
Publish dated updates and verified results as activities begin, including how any project funds are used and what support is delivered.
We have narrowed our first project from a broad ocean-cleanup idea to a whale-focused initiative in Cabo, Baja California, Mexico. Our founder’s original photographs and mother-and-calf footage introduce the story. The practical action plan, budget and dates are still being developed.
No completed fieldwork or funds raised are reported at this stage.
Support this project
When the plan and payment setup are ready, you will be able to give directly to Whales of Cabo here. We will explain the confirmed activity and how project donations are allocated before collecting funds.
The whale-focused action plan and budget are being developed. No target or donation total has been announced.
No payment is collected on this page.
Follow the project on Instagram ↗This is not a call to approach or free an entangled animal. Only trained and authorized responders should attempt disentanglement, as explained by NOAA Fisheries. Seek qualified local response guidance if you encounter wildlife in distress.
The three encounter photographs and mother-and-calf video are original imagery supplied by our founder from the trip near Cabo. The mother and calf are a separate sighting, not the entangled whale or evidence of its recovery. The header photograph, Whale Tale at the Crack of Dawn by Zach Dischner, is reference imagery from Baja’s Sea of Cortez, licensed under CC BY 2.0. It has been compressed for web use and is cropped by the page layout; its exact location in Cabo is not confirmed. The breaching-whale photograph used on our project cards is reference imagery by Todd Cravens, used under the Unsplash License; it was not photographed in Cabo and does not show One Journey fieldwork. No images here document a rescue or completed conservation activity.
