Category: Baja California Sur

After yesterday’s 9-mile kayak push, we’d get an easier day, right? Wrong, we’re upping it to 11 miles, transiting nearly the entire eastern side of Isla Espiritu Santo from north to south. But after yesterday’s paddle proved the imbalance we all expected, and we would need to bring up our lower-than-average group speed to complete…

Making sure that our slowest kayakers are paired with someone else in a tandem kayak is a key to moving forward efficiently as a group. The tour company doesn’t assign people to specific kayaks, or guarantee tandems or singles, but rather, leaves it a bit to the group to work out the best configuration, and…

No kayaking today, so that also meant no one needed to break down camp; two nights in one location is a treat when bike-touring, and it translates equally-well to kayak-touring. Around breakfast we discussed the impending arrival of new group members, who would be “replacing” Paul and Meredith (and Joaquin) as new 4-day tourers joining…

This morning we threw in yet another physical activity to balance our endless eating and drinking: hiking! The islands are one of Mexico’s newest National Parks, and according to Chino, that has resulted in many more protected areas and restrictions of human activity versus when he started giving tours of the islands 18 years ago.…

Coffee was on at 7am (out of the big blue Igloo dispenser again), followed shortly by a cornucopia of cold breakfast items to get us fueled up for the day’s kayaking. But instead of getting in the water near our scheduled 9am start time, we got a lecture and a lesson from Coach Chino, who…