Our Incredible Whale Adventure

We had a fast and comfortable sail from San Carlos

to Puerto Escondido on Baja (one of our best).

We arrived at 11am on Sunday, grabbed a mooring ball,

and arranged for a rental car to be delivered the next

morning from Loreto.

Puerto Escondido:

Dago the driver of the shuttle panga is wonderful!

Lots of changes in Puerto Escondido since we were

here last May:

New docks (for 180 boats?), new bathrooms and

showers, new store, new pizza restaurant, very friendly

and efficient staff, nice landscaping, shuttle service

from the anchorage, and new (higher) prices!

San Ignacio:

This is the coffee shop that is open in the
San Ignacio Plaza in the morning.

Kuyima Ecotours office where we reserved our spots on the
panga. We hightly reommend them!

Victor's Restaurant is right on the central
plaza and he has GREAT shrimp tacos
AND very fancy chair covers!

The one hour (+) drive to the laguna was paved

except for the last six kilometers:

They DO mark the hazards!

The first peek of the laguna!

The Kuyima Ecotourism Camp.

Victor - the captain of our panga

THE WHALES!

After our day on the laguna we drove to Santa

Rosalia where we spent the night. We then drove back to

Puerto Escondido with a stop in Loreto.

The next day we headed south to Agua Verde.

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