Posts Tagged ‘Baja’

Baja and the Sea of Cortez travel guide

// June 15th, 2010 // No Comments » // Travel

Some 20 million years ago, the desert territory we know as Baja California rumbled, shook and began to shear off from the mainland of Mexico along the San Andreas Fault. The Pacific Ocean rushed into the widening chasm, and when all the excitement died down, the Gulf of California was born.

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La Bufadora: Baja California

// June 15th, 2010 // No Comments » // USA Dive Guide

The sky and the sea were a seamless sheet of gray on the day I made my first dive off La Bufadora, the famed blowhole 20 miles south of Ensenada in Baja California.

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Los Islotes: Sea of Cortez dive guide

// June 15th, 2010 // No Comments » // USA Dive Guide

The anchor splashed down, and as we started jumping in so did the sea lions, barking and sliding off their rock benches, then swimming out to greet us. This was shaping up like a Sea World show.

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Baja Dive Guide

// June 7th, 2010 // No Comments » // Travel

The Baja Peninsula is an 800-mile swath of desert, beaches and plateaus that stretches all the way from the U.S.-Mexico border at Tijuana to the famous rock outcropping known as Land’s End. It splits the Eastern Pacific from the Gulf of California (aka the Sea of Cortez) and creates countless diving opportunities on both its Pacific and Gulf coasts.

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