Kayaking Loreto to La Paz

Our kayak trip didn't turn out to be the epic 100 miles of paddling that it could have been.  The wind blew and the waves grew so we only paddled about 35 miles. But who can really complain about spending a week traveling to beautiful beaches with warm ocean temperatures in mid-November?
After a short warm up paddle on Sunday we started our paddle Monday morning. The view from our window Monday morning was beautiful.

The view from the front of the kayak was great

and the view in the back was pretty good too.

We paddled about 14 miles that day, but that was the longest paddle we had.We settled into our room with another gorgeous view.

  After that our paddling time got shorter and shorter, but we did some interesting side trips on land. We actually spent a lot of time hanging out with the other paddlers at our deluxe camping tables. The food was great.

This is possible the house that John Steinbeck stayed in when he heard the legend of the Pearl, which he used in his book. At any rate the owner of this house made a fortune in pearls and lost it all.

Another beautiful sunrise.

Here we are actually in the kayaks,

but after a short paddle we were exploring on land again.  This time we visited a salt mine that was really salt evaporation ponds. Calvin is standing by a pile of salt.

Another beautiful sunset

One of the highlights of the trip was snorkeling with sea lions in a marine preserve. 

We also saw several eels swimming in the middle of the morning

and lots of beautiful fish.

Here is our group at the final dinner.

A pretty good way to spend a week in November.