The road ahead stretches 1,063 miles, beginning at the Mexican border. “That’s totally changed.” Since the worst months of the pandemic, Baja tourists have largely resumed lolling in resorts, wintering in RVs, sportfishing, joining off-road races and raising hell in Cabo San Lucas nightclubs. “There’s a lot to see.” The first time, in a Toyota 4Runner From my first trip …
SAN IGNACIO, Mexico — For thousands of years, the gray whales of the eastern Pacific have undertaken one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal — starting in the cold waters of the Arctic, then down past the densely populated coasts and beaches of California before finally finding refuge in the warm, shallow estuaries of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. …
Balvi Vasquez, left, reaches toward a mother gray whale and her calf as The Times’ Carolyn Cole captures photographs in Baja California, Mexico. Originally, we had a plan to follow the whales on their yearly migration, starting in Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, where these whales appear every spring to bask and reproduce in warm, protected inlets. Carolyn and I aborted …
