Guerrero Negro, Mexico Travel Blogs

Baja Beckons
Mar 27, 2007 (20 photos)

... could see. A spectacular sight that we had not seen since the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Arriving in the dusty settlement of Guerrero Negro we hoped we would be in time to spend a day watching the gray whales before they start back on their long ...

Day One Eighty-Six
Apr 30, 2005

... the Pemex in Santa Rosalia was out but fortunately the Pemex in San Ignacio had plenty of magna (regular unleaded). We made Guerrero Negro in time to see the aftermath of a motorcycle wreck on the main street and check into the unremarkable and slightly ...

Enroute to Los Angeles
Apr 27, 2007 (5 photos)

Once clearing the Bay at Cabo San Lucas, we headed north toward Los Angeles and back to the Pacific Cruise Terminal at San Pedro, CA

Day 2: Sailing South of the Border
Dec 10, 2003 (6 photos)

What time is it anyway? Who the heck knows since we have an inboard room (meaning no porthole). "Michael, what time is it?" I asked. "Eight-thirty," he said. "Did you set your watch up one hour before we went to be like they instructed?" "It was an hour ...

Day One Seventy-Five
Apr 19, 2005

... they sell at Home Depot and a backpack sprayer sprayed some odorless, colorless liquid, most likely water, under our truck. Guerrero Negro, about five kilometers south of the 28th Parallel on the Bahia de Sebastian Vizcaino, has to be the sister city ...

Orientation
Aug 29, 2006

... friend from Fort Collins who is going on the voyage. Yesterday we were on the 10:00 shuttle bus from San Diego to Ensenada, Mexico because it's a lot cheaper to get 700 people out of there instead of the US. As we crossed the border there were two guys ...

Turtle bay
Jan 24, 2006 (5 photos)

Ik zit nu in een gehucht aan de turtle bay, het is een vissersplaatsje aan een grote baai, omringd door oud en kaal vulkanisch gesteente, en rotsen. Het is een stoffig plaatsje, geen verharde wegen, maar wel leuke huisjes onder wat struiken die in rode ...

Giant Squid and the 28th Parallel
Oct 21, 2006 (5 photos)

... we left we got to see these giant squid in the water on the beach right outside our doors where we were camped!(see pics) Guerrero Negro is basically another dust bowl of a place but has its beautiful spots. We got to see the "Dunas" (coastal sand ...

Still Here
Oct 25, 2006 (10 photos)

Hi everybody Just wanted to put in an entry for those who are keeping tabs on us. We are still here waiting for the water over the roads to subside so we can continue our journey. The rains have stopped and it is beautiful again!Hopefully we can leave ...

Hurricaine Paul
Oct 24, 2006

... a couple hundred miles to do the "wait and see" on Hurricaine Paul. Anyway it took 8 hours to go 200 miles back to Guerrero Negro today. It was raining and when we got to Santa Rosalia there were several big washouts on the road with fast running deep ...

A ride with Rodolfo
Nov 23, 2007

I woke up to the sweet sounds of roosters and pickup trucks on the highway. Again, I had another pretty hard morning of hitchhiking. Standing at the edge of the desert, there´s not a lot of traffic heading southwards but eventually I got picked up by ...

Hitchhiking to nowhere...
Nov 22, 2007

... He gave good conversation though, and I was able to get a pretty good vitamin C fix too. I didn´t stick around in Guerrero Negro. I´d already been there a week before with Mauro to pick up some supplies. The town´s strange name (which means Black Warrior) ...

Stopped in Guerrero Negro, Baha California Sur
Jan 12, 2008

On Saturday, January 12th we crossed over into the Baha California Sur and in Guerrero Negro there was a stop that required us to pay 10 Pesos or US $1.00, for a mandatory 'pesticide spray'.  We are not sure if that is what it was or just a quick ...

Ridiculous off-road excursion
Jan 21, 2007 (3 photos)

... than away from, semi-trucks to avoid the back draft pushing us off the road completely. But we made it in one piece to Guerrero Negro, home of Grey Whale watching during the mating season (December - March), where we found a 'campsite' (parking lot) right ...

DEB DOES THE TALKING
Apr 15, 2009 (1 photos)

April13,2009 On The Plane. There is a reason why we never fly Air Canada. In fact there are a number of reasons! First, Air canada is NEVER on time for anything....and even when they are they are late. When we called our flight was 15 minutes late.... ...

It Would Have Been Better With Whales
Oct 6, 2005

After we finally found the ABC bus station in Tijuana, it was no trouble to get a ticket to Guerrero Negro. I do need to get used to the local abreviations though. It was somewhat disturbing to be handed a ticket that said "Gro Negro." Excuse me? But the ...

Salt
Oct 6, 2005

We wavered on whether or not to try to visit Exportadora De Sal, Gro. Negro's other highlight. At first we figured we'd just move on. I mean, salt? But every single establishment in town had photos on the wall of the salt. Salt fields, salt tractors, salt ...

The Whales - mamas and babies migrating north
Apr 3, 2009 (24 photos)

Woke and got ready for whale watching tour.  Mario's Tours was recommended so we ate breakfast at Mario's restaurant and then loaded a small bus.  Once we arrived at boat the capitan said that Tatanka could go!  Doubled the tip for ...

Bahia de Tortugas (Turtle Bay)
Mar 27, 2009 (4 photos)

... the hell out of so-cal.  Glad it was just the tail cause it was gnarly enough as is.  Got some supplies, kicked it at this little cantina, had some beers, they were like seventy cents each or something, so sick. Gettin into real Mexico now.

Day 14 - At Sea - Our LAST Hoorah
Nov 21, 2009

Today is our last day at Sea, and the last day of the cruise. Part of me is a little glad this is over.  Two weeks with the same people (some of which were pretty great, other who were...well, tolerable) as well being on a rocking ship is more than ...

Crossing into Baja Sur
Feb 4, 2008

We are sitting in a bar about 4 kilometers south of the Baja Sur border. Quite a distance from our last entry and the bar is helping our nerves to calm down a bit. What a journey. Fierce winds, narrow roads, mountains, and some fording of low water are ...

Bahia Tortugas,Baja California
Jan 19, 2009 (5 photos)

Wow!What a place.photos coming tomorrow.I'm in an amzing place.it feels like a spaghetti western and Tony has the hat!I'll be catching up with our cruising so far tomorrow,as comms are few and far between.We've seen whales,seals,sunfish,and thousands of ...

18th April: Sea Day
Apr 19, 2005

Oh boy.  I could get used to this. Breakfast. We can either have breakfast in the restaurant and be waited upon, or in one of the more relaxed environments (the waffle station, the buffet, the other buffet, the patisserie...). We elected for the ...

GUERRERO NEGRO
Jan 8, 2009

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Mexico Missions Trip 2002
Sep 1, 2006 (5 photos)

Back in 2002, I went to San Quintin, Baja Mexico with my youth group from the Okotoks Evangelical Free Church for 2 weeks. While down there we worked at the Mexican Medical Mission building projects, showing videos, and putting on DVBS for the kids. This ...

Isla Benito Santos to Bahia Tortugas
Dec 23, 2001 (5 photos)

Our next stop was Bahia Tortugas (aka Bahia San Bartolome on the charts) where we arrived in the wee hours of Dec. 23. We were more comfortable with radar navigation now, plus the entrance to the bay was well marked with good lights. The next day ...

Islas San Benitos and Bahia Tortugas
Jan 21, 2009 (5 photos)

Some of the places we anchored: Colonet,in which the anchorage is a colonade of desert red and brown sandstone cliffs between two arroyos,which appera to look like a nose from above,with the nostrils!Here we witnessed an amazing sunset and at the same ...

people and places in Baja
Jan 26, 2009 (5 photos)

Amazing fishing village in Ascuncion.Here making our way down the baja peninsula,with a great bunch of people,on shore and sea.We cook together and sail together and have picked up people on the way.We left Bahia Tortugas and sailed 50nm here and it blew ...

South to Guererro Negro, Baja California Sur!!
Apr 2, 2009 (9 photos)

After coffee and breakfast burritos we loaded the car and headed for Guerrero Negro.  The change in landscape was beautiful.  Got into the tall ciros and volcanic rock. Chose Hotel Ballena from our Moon travel book - friendly, clean and ...

The plot THICKENS
Oct 19, 2009 (8 photos)

The first day at sea started off cloudy.  The boys couldn't go sun themselves - and it was a bit cold. But then God apparently noticed, realized his mistake, and cleared the skies just as Project Runway started.  Heidi was thrilled and even gave ...