Posts Categorized: Kayaking

Back to Isla Ángel de la Guarda

Posted February 3rd, 2020 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Bahía de los Ángeles, Kayaking, Off the Beaten Path.

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 »

Kayaking Guardian Angel Island

Posted December 2nd, 2019 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Bahía de los Ángeles, Kayaking, Off the Beaten Path.

  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

Posted May 7th, 2019 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Adventure, Bahía de los Ángeles, Kayaking.

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

Posted February 4th, 2019 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Adventure, Kayaking.

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

Posted January 10th, 2019 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Adventure, Kayaking.

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

Posted January 4th, 2018 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Kayaking, Off the Beaten Path.

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

Posted December 5th, 2017 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Kayaking, Off the Beaten Path.

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

Posted November 7th, 2017 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Bahía de los Ángeles, Kayaking, Off the Beaten Path.

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

Posted October 5th, 2017 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Bahía de los Ángeles, Kayaking, Whale Watching, Wildlife.

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 »

Paddling South from Bahía de los Ángeles (Part Two)

Posted November 30th, 2016 by Graham Mackintosh & filed under Kayaking, Off the Beaten Path.

By Graham Mackintosh Amazing what you can pack into (and onto) a 12-foot-long sit-on-top kayak… and into a day of Baja adventure. Carrying over six gallons of water and a… Read more »