Whale of a visit

It sounds like a fantastic trip...each lagoon is quite different! We have a base camp at Ojo de Liebre at Guerrero Negro so come out and visit us. You can see what we do at www.whalemagictours.com so just let me know if you want some help setting something up.

Just a side note...try to avoid any lagoon on Presidents Day Weekend as they are packed and the whales are over stressed. Happy Whale Watching folks.

Here is my daughter slobbering on a whale!

See the first Spanish missions of California:

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thank you for the personal touch responses. We will make a visit to the camp. Your website is slow today but will keep trying. Love the picture! For the first time out we will take Hwy 1 since we are renting a car. welcome any other ideas if you have the time.

Your trip will take you from the place where California began, at Loreto. What is meant is the first permanent population of people who called the land California, began at Loreto in 1697. The mission, Nuestra Señora de Lorerto Conchó, California's first is where the 48 California missions began, as did the Camino Real mission trail that connected all the missions.... south to San José del Cabo, and north to the San Francisco Bay region.

Within 25 miles of Loreto are the second and third California missions, San Javier (1699) and San Juan Bautista de Ligüí (1705). San Javier is the jewel of the California missions and you can see the fully intact and open example of Jesuit mission construction from the 1750's. Ligüí was not so successful and only a cross marks a spot near where that mission once stood.

On your way north to see whales, you pass the fourth mission, Santa Rosalía de Mulegé (1705) another intact Jesuit mission, visible from the highway and accessed from just south of the bridge.

The next mission you can easily visit is in the center of San Ignacio, founded in 1728 (the 11th mission of California) with construction of the giant church completed by the Dominicans in 1786.

La Purísima is home to the 6th California mission (1720), but sadly only some rubble and a few crypts mark the site in town.

A look at these missions: http://vivabaja.com/bajamissions

Here are some pictures:


Loreto (bell tower added 1955)


San Javier


Ligüí, last visible foundation rubble, 2001.


Mulegé


La Purísima, in 1906


San Ignacio

This humpy trying out for an insurance company ad made me feel pretty small in my kayak last Saturday off Isla San Roque.

Great shot Ross and close enough to scare the living daylights out of you.