Departing 12-day Baja naturalist expeditions from Point Loma aboard a 95-foot USCG SOLAS-certified vessel, Searcher Natural History Tours runs from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas with permitted access to Mexico's protected wildlife areas. The vessel docks at Fisherman's Landing on Garrison Street, departing on overnight transits through Ensenada for Mexican customs clearance before continuing down the Baja peninsula. Naturalist-led itineraries anchor at Laguna San Ignacio for close-in panga-skiff encounters with gray whales and their calves, then push into the Sea of Cortez for blue, humpback, fin, sperm, Bryde's, and pilot whale observation alongside whale-shark snorkeling. Fourteen staterooms sleep up to 32 passengers across two viewing decks, with air-conditioned cabins, dual 475-horsepower Caterpillar engines, satellite navigation, and color-scanning sonar for tracking cetacean activity through the deep Cortez trenches. The single-itinerary 12-day format from February through April focuses on multi-lagoon photography and cetacean biology, a long-expedition structure distinct from the shorter coastal cruises offered by Wild Pacific Whale Watch. Private charters support scientific research teams and wildlife photography groups requiring sustained access to Islas San Benito elephant-seal rookeries and the federally-protected gray-whale calving grounds at Ojo de Liebre and San Ignacio Lagoon.