Richard and Chris Klingsick

NRDC members Richard and Chris Klingsick visited Laguna San Ignacio in 2007.

To experience the wild one must reach outside of one’s world. To commune with the wild, one must reach inside of one's self.

Laguna San Ignacio afforded my wife Chris and I just that opportunity. We jumped aboard the opportunity to encounter the gray whales in their own element, and found ourselves not only touching them with our hands, but also with our emotions, bringing the experience into the realm of the spiritual. We could not come away from the experience without some profound change in our view of the world and our place in it.

To think of the world as something that is there only for our benefit, to use and use up, is to lose our place in the world. Once we have lost our place in the world, we lose all sense of the spiritual and the realities of where we fit in the grand scheme of things. We are the master of nothing in this world. I would have it no other way…the whales of Laguna San Ignacio gave me the gift of knowing this in my heart.

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