I’m a DIY (do it yourself) kind of fisherman. I have been ever since I first began traveling to Baja and ultimately settled down at Rancho Deluxe, our East Cape beachfront home.With nothing between my front porch and the Sea of Cortez, over the years my fishing friends and I tried a variety of platforms from trailer boats to float tubes in an... Read more...
One of the concerns amongst health officials has been as the COVID-19 virus moves through an increasing number of people it has the opportunity to evolve. The 1918 Spanish Flu (Kansas Flu) is believed to have originated in the US as a relatively low level of mortality. By the time it traveled to Europe and back again to the US the mortality... Read more...
I have had a lengthy love affair with Mexico and my most recent fabulous fling being with the Baja Peninsula. The thought of this wonderful long stretch of varied and much surprising land makes my heart flutter as much as a new boyfriend would.Not only is it wildly practical since I live in Los Angeles and can either fly for two hours to the most... Read more...
Most of the time you get a report from groups that took a charter trip. This is a report from someone who takes the people out. My name is Mike and I am one of the skippers for a charter company in La Paz, Mexico.We never know who the people are or where they are from before the trip starts. This is a report of a nine-day trip from La Paz north to... Read more...
A Temazcal is a mud or brick dome-like construction and is used to house people while they undergo an ancient Aztec cleansing ritual. The intention of this is to balance the mind, body and spirit, ‘which they say promotes spiritual rebirth.’ The site of this particular Temazcal was the home of Menelio Morales. Sarah Markworth travelled to the... Read more...
Thongs are a major item in Baja beachwear. Don't be caught without yours or in the wrong kind of thongs as this article points out.Thong, what a great word, what a great sound? Thong coming from the fact that thongs are made with just a slight amount of material (originally a thong of leather) that goes between the appendages. They come in... Read more...
The warm, calm waters at La Paz attracts hundreds of whales during migrating season. During December through April, the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez are filled with migrating whales that travel 20,000 miles from the Bering Sea to reach the warm and calm waters of La Paz, Baja California Sur in Mexico. It is in this particular area of... Read more...
By boat, it was only forty miles from beautiful Isla San Francisco back to La Paz. By late afternoon, the kids and my wife Jan were lounging in the shade of the cockpit watching the city’s skyline take shape, when Melissa, age ten and her brother Thomas, 14, noticed several giant manta rays leaping clear of the water.“Look Mom, there are lots... Read more...
The Baja California peninsula is home to more than 600,000 North Americans and is visited annually by millions people from around the world. Tijuana is one of the busiest borders in the world and in 2014 Los Cabos became the #1 tourist destination of Mexico. The BajaInsider provides an effective media outlet for your company to connect with people... Read more...
It's that noise that keeps some folks up at night when sleeping in a boat in the temperate waters of the Sea of Cortez. Some fear them for Fiberglass Termites but marine biologist Bill Martin fills us in on Snapping Shrimp or more scientifically amed Alpheus heterochaelis. Bill is a retired architect with a passion that drove him to a MS in 1999... Read more...
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