Gabriel, my 7 year old, loves to camp and has a reasonable appreciation for wildlife. However, he's a seven year old boy.... in other words, loaded with energy and in need of a daily dose of running around to keep the rest of us sane.

To start our trip, therefore, I opted for a full day of adventure activities outside La Paz- horseback …

What a perfect trip for wildlife enthusiasts! We participated in a local community sea turtle monitoring project. The project leader demonstrated how to capture the turtles and then we each took turns weighing and measuring turtles.

All information is documented and then transferred to a single database to be used for research. We measured the …

One of the unexpected joys of our entire trip, in particular the turtle camp, was the quality of the food. The stomach illnesses that can impact travelers in much of Mexico are relatively uncommon in Baja where restaurants are used to catering to sensitive tummies. Even at our remote camp that lacked running water, the cooking staff had an …

Yep, these are the shots of grey whales I took with my point and shoot camera. Magdalena Bay is an otherworldly place where the Grey Whales come each Jan/Feb to have their calves. They stay around the area until the calves are strong enough to travel back up the coast, eventually migrating to northern Alaska and beyond in a trip of over 3000 …

In a stroke of fortune, when we returned to La Paz on the last day, we arrived back in the middle of Carnaval. The locals told me that La Paz is the center of Carnaval celebrations for the entire Baja Peninsula. We missed the parades during the day, but the evening came alive with multiple free stages offering live music, dozens of food carts, …