Baja 3/07


In March I went on a 10 day trip to Loreto, Mexico (a little north of La Paz, on the Sea of Cortez side of the Baja peninsula), spent a couple days in town just hanging out, a day out on a whale watch on the Pacific side, and then 6 days on the water kayaking and camping on the beaches of Carmen Island and Danzante Island.  Here are some pictures!  Most are other people's pictures on this trip -- I didn't bring my camera on the water -- so please enjoy but at least some of them asked for the pictures not to be reproduced in any way.  Thanks!

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A couple shots from in town... 		Ba Ja (7)
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View from my hotel room in Loreto 		100_0137
A whale watch on the Pacific Ocean side of Baja to see gray whales...
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...and a seal or sea lion...
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the desert 		sunset_boats2
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just some typical group scenes... 		group_beach
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along a hike into the desert to look at flora & fauna 		100_0171
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Our fearless leader Sergio caught a pufferfish 		100_0270
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in a sea cave
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Our naturalist and one of the directors of the company I went with (Sea Quest), Martine 		100_0304
an injured blue footed booby
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The naturalist at work :-)
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dinner time! (actually I can't tell what meal this is) 		IMG_1961
See, I make a couple appearances in these photos...
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Turkey vulture!
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Our fearless leader, Sergio 		Ba Ja (63)
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Sergio leading us on another hike to look at plants 		Ba Ja (81)
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Here I am again 		FH000009
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We've caught up with a blue whale here... Definitely a highlight of the trip!
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The best shot of the blue whale I think. 70 feet long and only about 150 ft away from us 		whale_closeup
Our same friend again, with the end of a kayak and someone else's paddle in the foreground for scale!
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Some jumping fish 		evening_kayaks
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