Desert Death March

Posted on November 18, 2011 by admin

Seemed pretty simple. A supposed 2 mile hike around the point to get to a marine reserve for some snorkling in the only live coral reef in the Western US. One catch: we didn’t find the road. Hence the Death March through the desert. Once we actually got to the snorkling area, all was great! We also found the road, so the walk back was only an hour versus the three and a half hour march through the cactus and mesquite. When we saw the dead buzzard, one of our party said it all: “That can’t be good”.

: Six gringos trying to find their way through the cactus studded landscape.

: We looked pretty good for being totally lost!

: Deceptively beautiful landscape, but left a lot of scratches on arms and legs

: The hike was tough, but the snorkling was great!

: Lots of fish

: The beach were we went snorkling

Launching Baby Sea Turtles

Posted on November 18, 2011 by admin

A fantastic experience, we lucked into being at Los Muertos about when the sea turtles hatch. At first as we were walking the beach, there was a mystery: Sticks and screens were set up for who knows what purpose…

…then we noticed strange tracks in the sand…

Could these be snake tracks??

…then we found out what this was all about!! Baby Sea Turtles were hatching and the “shrines” were actually protecting the eggs from being trampled and from being dug up by the seagulls.

"Our" sea turtle. We named him; "Cortez"

Be free, Cortez!

Adios muchacho (he knew which way to swim and we watched until he was beyond the surf and heading out to sea)

A Whale of a day

Posted on November 18, 2011 by admin

Love seeing the grandeur of huge sea mammals. In this case, we were cruising North from Frailes to Muertos about 5 miles off Baja and I saw a whale in from of us. He was just cruising South on the surface and I actually had to alter course a bit to miss hitting him. We passed each other by about 30 yards. He seemed completely unpurturbed by us. I think it was a humpback.