Bahia de Magdalena

What do you do when guests come to visit and the weather doesn't cooperate? We welcomed our nephew, Dave Swank and his friend, Suzanne Hebert, only to have a "norther" with winds of 50+ knots per hour blow up in the Sea of Cortez. Here in La Paz and nearby islands, it only got up to 35+ knots, but that's too much to be comfortable...certainly not your "kick-back-and-bask-in-the-sun-Mexican" vacation.

So we drove across the Baja to San Carlos, Baja Sur, a small town located on Bahia Magdalena, where we charted a small panga to go out and watch for whales.

Even in Bahia Magdalena the winds were brisk. Our panguero, Enrique Senior, took us into the mangrove swamp first, bustling with bird-life.

Spectacular flocks of white ibis, yellow-crowned night heron, great blue heron, little blue heron, white egret, and green heron...the swamp was filled with them!