Travel day, I am home after 24 hours of travel. We took the long way home. We left San Carlos at 6:30AM and drove the 5 1/2 hours to San Jose del Cabo airport to drop off our friends who joined us. After that we sat in the airport and waited for our red-eye flight back to Texas. We landed in Mexico City at 1am, our next flight was at 5am. We didn’t get home until 8AM the next morning.

Crappy flight schedule.

So worth it though… This has been one hell of a Baja adventure. Sadly I broke my word to myself and did not journal every night after getting back to the hotel room. The days out on the water off Mag Bay are long. Really long, and you are just beat when you get back from the sea. 

The internet signal is also bad out in Mag Bay, so sharing blogs and vlogs was not an option. But the good part is I have a long-ish break in between these trips, and my next ones, so I will be sharing clips and stories from this adventure over the next few weeks. 

and there will be some good ones…

Magdalena Bay did not disappoint. We had a fantastic adventure with great people - Baja and the wildlife here is first-class. This was one of the best experiences we have ever had at Mag Bay and I can’t wait to share.

The grey whales were friendlier than ever and gave us all so many unique opportunities to capture images and videos of them. We even had some great encounters with a three-week-old baby. 

The baby was a bit shy, but its mom encouraged it to come in close, teaching it to swim and play around the boats. What is remarkable is this behavior only happens when the whales are in these Bays.

When the whales are out in the open ocean, they return to being shy and untrusting and do not like to be close to the boats. But in the Bay, some whales truly love interacting with people… they are such amazing animals. 

And when you think about it, humans once visited these Bays to hunt the whales for their oil. As a result, we nearly brought these beautiful animals to the brink of extinction due to human greed. Sadly the Makah tribe off Washington is still trying to kill grey whales as part of their ancestral rights. Hoping that tradition comes to an end.

Anyway, I will share more blogs with you all this week, and trips, and newsletters and updates on next season's trip.

Until then, my friends, stay tuned and thank you for reading.