Today the colors of the sunrise were incredible, on the East the sun coming up and at the West, pink colors both at the sky and at sea were just marvelous, as the announcement of a great day. Our first stop was at Isla San Marcos, where we had the opportunity to stretch our legs in hikes or along the shoreline. There were also expedition landing craft cruises and one of the highlights of the day was a group of bottlenose dolphins that played close to the expedition landing crafts for a good time. Isla San Marcos is one of the few islands in the Sea of Cortes, where people live and works mining the gypsum which is an important component of the minerals of the island. In the afternoon, we visited another mining town (copper) at Santa Rosalia on the Highway 1 at the Peninsula, where we had the opportunity to taste some flavors of sweet bread at the world famous “Panaderia del Boleo” (Bakery of El Boleo) and also enjoying the view of the town from the Hotel Frances.
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- 06 Mar 2018
Isla San Marcos and Santa Rosalía, BCS, 3/6/2018, National Geographic Sea Lion
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Octavio Maravilla, Naturalist
Octavio was born in Mexico City and moved to La Paz at age 19, to study Marine Biology at the Baja California Sur State University. He began his field research on California sea lions, working at Los Islotes, a small rookery close to La Paz City. Lat...
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Matthew grew up on the Gulf of Mexico, where a love of geography, culture and history were instilled at a young age. He studied anthropology at California State University, Chico, and soon began working at the Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropol...
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