I was planning a trip with my wife and son (6 year old) from La Paz to Bahía de Los Angeles, and explored the Internet to find something useful. I found your pages on Baja California and printed some of the material that I used during the travel. We traveled from 7 to 16 of April, part of the Semana Santa and the week after.

The road was quite good from La Paz up to Guerrero Negro. Some people were actually working at different spots, from the Ligui area to the north of Santa Rosalia. Some parts were repaved and others were cleaned out from bushes growing at the edge of the road. Potholes were found just starting at the road in the northern state of B.C.. The worst part was that just before the road to Bahía de Los Angeles. The road to Bahía was also in relatively bad condition, but not a big problem. The desert along that road was just great with a lot of flowers and animal life.

I found probably the last blue whales of the season in the Loreto area, feeding very close to the Coronado Island. The El Niño effects were not apparently so evident in all the places I visited (Santa Rosalia coast, Bahía de Los Angeles, Bahía de Las Animas), which means I did not find an unusual number of marine birds or mammals, maybe because the worst part seemed to have passed. I stayed at the Arquelon camp with my friends Toño and Bety Resendiz, during several windy but beautiful days.

David Aurioles-Gamboa
CICIMAR
La Paz, B.C.S.