Saturday, February 2, 2008

San Carlos & La Paz,

Baja California Sur

Farewell

Early this morning we’ll arrive in San Carlos, and disembark just after an early breakfast. We sincerely hope that you’ve enjoyed your exploration of the Baja California, with its gray whale lagoons, myriad desert islands and abundant marine life. The entire staff and crew of the National Geographic Sea Lion, and all of us at Lindblad Expeditions thank you for sailing with us. We wish you fair winds and following seas, and hope our paths cross again…

0500: Wake-up call

Please place your checked luggage outside your cabin before breakfast

0515: Breakfast is served

0600: Disembarkation for coach trip across the peninsula to La Paz airport

Sunrise: 0710 Sunset: 1814

“We said, ‘Let’s go wide open. Let’s see what we see, record what we find, and not fool ourselves with conventional scientific strictures. We could not observe a completely objective Sea of Cortez anyway, for in that lonely and uninhabited Gulf our boat and ourselves would change it the moment we entered. By going there, we would bring a new factor to the Gulf…Let us go’ we said, ‘ into the Sea of Cortez, realizing that we become forever a part of it…We shall take something away from it, but we shall leave something too.”

- John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez