Whale Watch Weekend and Intertidal Life Festival is this Saturday and Sunday, January 11 and 12 from 9 am to 4 pm at Cabrillo National Monument.

Sponsored by CNMF, this year’s event celebrates 75 years of land-based whale watching. The Cabrillo National Monument tradition began officially in 1955 when the park was declared a public venue for observing gray whales. Cabrillo National Monument has hosted this event for the past three decades, typically drawing between 6,000 – 7,000 visitors over the course of the weekend.