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Trekking Across Dunes Toward the Pacific The sand was soft and the dunes ran up and down hill. Climbing in the...
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Lovely Desert Bloom Greenery and flowers are found where there are hidden reservoirs under the...
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Another Pretty, Hearty Plant
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A Succulent - No Surprise
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A Positive Greenery Explosion
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Delicate Pink and White
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Lovely Pastel Colors
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We Reached the Pacific! When we finished climbing the last dunes, we ended up on Sand Dollar...
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Pretty Surf Ah, for a surfboard.
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A Pacific Wave
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Sand Dollars - Much Bigger Than at Home
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Bottom of a Sand Dollar - Really Pretty
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A Plethora of Pelicans
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A Particularly Dry Area No greenery but beautiful dunes.
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The Famous Burros Apparently no one knows when the burros arrived here or exactly how they keep...
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A Boatload of Local Kids Sightseeing I think we might have been an even bigger attraction than the whales....
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All Set for the Gray Whale Celebration Lopez Mateos has rides, souvenir sellers and stands for munchies (not...
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One of the Rides at the Festival Is that Marilyn Monroe so prominently displayed?
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Another Ride This one was really tempting.
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A Spectacular Sunset at Lopez Mateos
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More of the Spectacular Sunset
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My First Gray Whale. WOW!! Turned out that pictures like this were more the norm than the few...
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A Bit More Gray Whale It's now possible to distinguish their very "spotty" coloration.
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A Breaching Baby Gray Whale
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The End of a Breach It's really pretty spectacular!
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A Local Fisherman Guiding Some Tourists These boats are known as Pangas and the fishermen as Pangueros. The boats are...
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Gray Whale Tail Yes, it was just this close. No telephoto lenses were needed.
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Gray Whale Mom and Her Calf Another really close up experience. Moms and calves are always close...
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A Gray Whale 'Spy Hopping' This is dubbed Spy Hopping because the whales literally propel themselves up...
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Late Day Spy Hopping
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Our Panguero Guide On the 2nd day of gray whale watching, we had local guides who were great at...
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Soaring With those wings, it must not be an effort.
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Frigate Female and Male (Courting) The male has his brillant red throat pouch inflated to entice the...
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A Frigate Bird Family Mom, junior and dad
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An Elegant Pelican These birds can look truly regal, as here, or totally disjointed when...
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A Melange of Birds All sitting on a sand bar that is just emerging as the tide goes out....
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The Sea Bird Looking a bit like an old paddle wheeler.
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The Sea Bird's Bell
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A Sculpture of Mangrove Roots As the dunes move around as a result of the winds, new growths of all...
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Another Beautiful Sunset
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Dolphins Surfing in the Bow Wave Here they are set off by the reflection of Sea Bird's bow showing...
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Surfing the Bow Wave The dolphins are crazy about surfing bow waves. With bigger ships, as...
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A Trio Every once in a while, the dolphins will briefly pop out of the water...
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A Young Pelican Landed on Board This event was sufficiently unusual that some were afraid that he was sick or...
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A Small Lighthouse on a Rocky Shore We saw very few navigational guides, such as lighthouses and buoys.
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Yet Again, Another Beautiful Sunset We were spoiled with wonderful weather and weather phenomena.
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Land's End at Dawn This view of the tip of the Baja California peninsula in the pale light was a...
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Catching the View Full Speed Ahead These guys were there to watch the spectacle from dawn to full sun rise. They...
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Land's End - Another Angle
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You Can Travel by Liner.... ...but, oh the things you miss. This big ship was lying off of Cabo...
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We Moved on to San Jose del Cabo This area is still very pretty and largely undeveloped. Though there are...
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Sea Bird at Pier A great backdrop for some of the pretty harbor planting.
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More of San Jose del Cabo's Waterfront The area around the harbor is very pretty down to and including the...
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More Pierside Planting
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A Watercolor Along the Estuary A lovely bird walk in San Jose del Cabo.
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Color on Shore We headed for town and some souvenir shopping and found pretty flowers...
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San Jose del Cabo's Town Square Sunny and spotless!
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A Pretty Planter in the Town Square
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A Sheltered and Colorful Courtyard
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Planting on the Beach A nice lead-in to a long and beautiful beach. There is quite a drop off and...
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A Humback Blow We saw this on the Gorda Banks where food is rich and plentiful and humpbacks...
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A Fabulous Beach Enjoyed by Dogs as Well Nothing like chasing sticks into the surf and running along the beach!
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It's Chow Time for Birds, too
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A Lone Pelican No doubt meditating
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Yet a Different Sunset
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Dolphins Are Back
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It's a Blue Whale! The biggest!
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A Starfish with Flexible Arms Your every day starfish has fixed arms and moves with tube feet under...
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Half Moon Cove, Isla San Francisco A beautiful little harbor with the first cruising boats we saw. The...
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View from Above - Half Moon Cove
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Hiking Inland from the Shore New and wonderful cacti
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A Wee Bush We took a small hike ashore to soak up the desert environment. As we saw with...
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Pelilcans Gathering for Feeding Time They put on a diving exhibition that was hard to believe - almost...
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A Feeding Frenzy
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A Scenic and Serene Cocktail Hour It's hard to believe that nature keeps coming up with new, beautigul...
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What a Setting for a Barbecue!
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Another Nice View of Sea Bird
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Handsome Rock Formation
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Sea Lions Sunning, Los Islotes
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White Sea Lions
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Ready For Kayaking A great way to sight-see
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Rocky but Colorful Shore
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Yellow Footed Gull As we kayaked along the shore, we saw a nice assortment of birds.
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An Elegant Blue Heron
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Giant Cactus This is a desert after all.
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Intrepid Hikers
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Just Waiting for the Stagecoach
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Interesting Ground Cover
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Colorful Cacti
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The Living and the Dead
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A Final Sunset What a spectacular array of sunsets came along with this great trip!
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Yours Truly
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