My daughter wants to go whale watching during the Thanksgiving holidays . . . does anyone know where are some places to go?

I tried google.com but found mostly technical sites.

I know if anybody can help, you Fodorites can.

Thanks in advance,
Sandy

If you're looking for whales in their natural habitat, I suggest you come to my house and observe my in-laws after Thanksgiving dinner.

After laughing myself into a stupor, I suddenly had a thought . . . you are probably a GREAT cook, will you have any left-overs?

This might kill two birds w/one stone, whales in their habitat and we won't be missing out on turkey/dressing!

Where did you say you lived???

Actually, I was feeling a little bad about giving you that flippant response to a serious question. But you gotta see my in-laws in action to truly understand. Me, cook? Don't have to. They have no problem with devouring everything raw (and sometimes still alive).

Sandy, where will you be when you want to go whale watching? Not in New England I hope...

No, not in New England, we were there a couple of years ago in Nov and found out then that it was too late in the season.

We could go to CA or Mexico or Central America, don't know if we have the time to go farther afield.

Thanks!

Is whale watching in New England that hopeless? My boyfriend goes crazy over whales and we're closer to New England than anywhere else plausible. What's the skinny on that?

After Turkey's comments about his in-laws, I didn't think we'd see the word "skinny" in this thread.

Sandy - California is the place ya gotta be, so they loaded up the truck and went to Monterey...

I took my family in August on www.montereywhalewatch.com and saw tons of whales... the web site also posts past sightings and it looks like last year was pretty good for Thanksgiving... Blues, Killers, humpbacks and other swimming stuff...

We stayed in Marina, which was about ten minutes from the dock and has great oceanfront accomodations... There's the Marina Dunes Resort and a Super 8 across the street...

The whale watching was one of the highlights of our San Francisco vacation and well worth it. Have fun!