By Graham Mackintosh Last November I kayaked around 42-mile-long Isla Ángel de la Guarda. Many days I launched in the dark, paddled for 8-hours, spent close to two hours setting up… Read more »
Posts By: Graham Mackintosh
Kayaking Guardian Angel Island
By Graham Mackintosh Isla Ángel de la Guarda is about ten miles offshore from Bahía de los Ángeles. It is 42 miles long, about eight miles wide at… Read more »
Paddle to Isla Coronado
By Graham Mackintosh The cone-shape volcano at the north end of Smith Island, or Isla Coronado, is a familiar sight for visitors to Bahía de los Ángeles. I’d been around… Read more »
Kayaking Loreto to La Paz, Part II
Part 2: Santa Marta to La Paz By Graham Mackintosh Seen from the perspective of a kayak, the coast between Agua Verde and La Paz is often beautiful and colorful… Read more »
Kayaking Loreto to La Paz
Part 1: Loreto to Santa Marta By Graham Mackintosh Over the last three years I’ve been kayaking the Sea of Cortez, usually in October and November. I began in Bahía… Read more »
Kayaking Bahía Concepción to Loreto: Part 2
San Juanico to Loreto By Graham Mackintosh A week into the trip, I took my first day off in beautiful, sheltered Ensenada San Juanico. Late afternoon, a multi-million dollar powerboat,… Read more »
Kayaking Bahía Concepción to Loreto: Part 1
Bahía Concepción to San Juanico By Graham Mackintosh The latest stage of my kayaking the Sea of Cortez got off to a great start. I stopped at Bahía de los… Read more »
Kayaking South from Bahía Concepción
By Graham Mackintosh A year ago I set off before dawn from Bahía de Los Ángeles and paddled my somewhat overloaded sit-on-top kayak down to Mulegé and Bahía Concepción. For… Read more »
The Whale Sharks of Bahía de los Ángeles
By Graham Mackintosh Bahía de los Ángeles is a great place to interact with whale sharks. Just a day’s drive or a relaxed two days from San Diego, it’s easy… Read more »
The San Pedro Mártir and Lidia
By Graham Mackintosh Northern Baja California’s Sierra de San Pedro Mártir is one of the least visited conifer forests in North America—a “sky island” surrounded by chaparral and desert. Not… Read more »