Baja Carmen Island Expedition Intro
Escape to Baja for a free kayak trip in exchange for documenting the trip with photos and video? and creating a promo DVD for Sea Kayak Baja Mexico! - hell yes!!!
I just got back from a 14 day kayak expedition in paradise!! Dolphins, sea turtles, mountainous Islands, with giant cactus, and sandy beaches. Tropical fish, awesome snorkeling, sea caves to explore, abandoned salt mine, great gourmet food, and camping on isolated beaches whilst watching diving pelicans under magnificent sunsets - man I didn’t want to come home! I’ll post plenty of blogs of this trip, but will wet your appetite with a few photos. We flew into Loreto from LA, and our trip started on a remote beach about 30 minutes drive South of Loreto, where Ginni of Sea Kayak Baja Mexico greeted the ten of us, and wolla within a couple of hours we were off paddling!
Baja Peninsula with Carmen Island circled
Carmen Island zoomed in showing our clockwise circumnavigation
Carmen Island uninhabitated paradise
Look at the clarity of the water in this shot I took high on the cliff looking down on some of our kayakers.
You can see why I fell in love with this place! (Photograph by Jason Goldstein)
Sunset with Pelicans. (Photograph by Jason Goldstein)
We had white and brown pelicans diving for fish almost every night, here are some at sunset overhead
Many sea caves, and arches are there to explore, some you can fit 50 kayakers in with room to maneuver.
Sea Caves to explore. (Photograph by Jason Goldstein)
I’ll leave you with a photo of Judy and I relaxing after a days paddle on a typical sandy beach campsite with desert mountains draped in cactus as background.
Listening to some music at camp and enjoying life. (Photograph by Jason Goldstein)
stay tuned to many more posts on this trip highlighting the wildlife, the history, the town of Loretto, breath taking scenery, abandoned salt mines, and some video clips of the trip. Alas I’m back in the gloomy and dreary Pacific Northwest, secretly wishing I hadn’t returned from Baja. I have the Baja bug for sure and will be back I’m sure of it.
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