38 - November 2007, Cabo Pulmo, Mexico
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001 Map of San Diego to Cabo Pulmo.jpg |
002 Local map of Cabo Pulmo.jpg |
003 Talitha eating carne assade a la Mark on the first night.jpg |
004 Chica at the beach.JPG |
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005 The view to La Punta Sirenita.JPG |
006 The full moon makes for extremely low tide and exposes the first finger of the reef.JPG |
007 Shadow.JPG |
008 Spiny lobster dead on the beach.JPG |
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009 We go snorkling and sample the beauty of the reef.JPG |
010 A couple of sea gulls have found something - Mine mine mine.JPG |
011 Mark takes the camera diving and sees Cortez garden eels.JPG |
012 Amarillo snapper.JPG |
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013 Goatfish.JPG |
014 Grouper.JPG |
015 Lots of fish swimming around.JPG |
016 Spotted Moray eel.JPG |
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017 Bullseye stingrays.JPG |
018 Turtle.JPG |
019 Menu of today at Nancys, electricity fails so we wat by candle light.JPG |
020 Mark by candle light and with obligatory Margarita.JPG |
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021 Monday the 26th we watch the sunrise, how romatic.JPG |
022 There it is.JPG |
023 The colors change rapidly.JPG |
024 The fishermen arrive, gear up and Paco takes us out.JPG |
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025 The cottages of the resort from the sea.JPG |
026 Some pelicans are waiting.JPG |
027 They know where we get our bait fish.JPG |
028 Yeehaw, Talitha has one, a yellow fin tuna.JPG |
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029 The catch.JPG |
030 Mark and mahi mahi or dolphin fish.JPG |
031 Talitha and yellow fin tuna.jpg |
032 Paco (on the left) is cleaning our fish.JPG |
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033 Baby turtles waiting in a crate to be set free at sea.JPG |
034 Back at the casa we slap some of the tuna on the grill.JPG |
035 Mark preparing sashimi.JPG |
036 Sashimi in progress.JPG |
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037 One of the other fishermen had brought wasabi and gave us some.JPG |
038 Dip and eat, yummy.JPG |
039 In the evening we go to Titos and drink a whole bunch of Margaritas.jpg |
040 Tuesday Mark goes diving again.JPG |
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041 Stripe you up or down.JPG |
042 Diamond stingray.JPG |
043 Amarillo snapper and the smaller ones are Scissortail Damselfish.JPG |
044 Amarillo snapper.JPG |
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045 Guineafowl puffer.jpg |
046 Broomtail Grouper.JPG |
047 Coral.JPG |
048 We take our mahi mahi to the Palapa restaurant and they prepare it for us.JPG |
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049 The outside seating area of our casa.JPG |
050 The other end of the outside seating.JPG |
051 And more still.JPG |
052 The bedroom side.JPG |
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053 Shower.JPG |
054 The living room.JPG |
055 Wall decoration in the living room.JPG |
056 The well equipped kitchen.JPG |
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057 The dining table, used for stacking things onto, just like home.JPG |
058 The underside of the roof.JPG |
059 The top of the roof, our sunroof.JPG |
060 Solar panels on the roof supply us with all the energy we need, on a sunny day that is.JPG |
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061 Night falls and it will soon be pitch black for lack of street lights.JPG |
062 Yellowtail surgeonfish.JPG |
063 Bulbhead parrotfish.jpg |
064 Amarillo snappers and the reef.JPG |
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065 Blunthead triggerfish.jpg |
066 Porkfish.JPG |
067 Gulf grouper.JPG |
068 Barberfish.jpg |
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069 Talitha enjoys the beach by herself.JPG |
070 Wild horses do the same in a small family group.JPG |
071 Beautifully dark animals.JPG |
072 A pelican getting ready to take off.JPG |
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073 At some point a pelican decides to join Talitha.JPG |
074 Everytime Talitha moves he steps a little closer.JPG |
075 When Mark comes along, the animal makes it almost onto Marks towel, occasionally opening its beak gaping wide, it was getting a little unnerving.JPG |
076 The main road through Cabo Pulmo is a dirt road.JPG |
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077 View over Cabo Pulmo from up the hill.JPG |
078 Mark at the endpoint of the route.JPG |
079 Talitha fiddling with the camera.JPG |
080 Talitha in view of Cabo Pulmo .JPG |
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081 Cricket.JPG |
082 Cactus.JPG |
083 Pretty creeper.JPG |
084 Walking stick.JPG |
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085 Cricket sitting on his old skin to dry.JPG |
086 View of Cabo Pulmo from the hill.JPG |
087 Wasp.jpg |
088 Mark scrambles up the hill a little more.JPG |
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089 While Talitha hangs out at the endpoint of the road.JPG |
090 Cactus.JPG |
091 Another walking stick.JPG |
092 Ground squirrel.JPG |
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093 Cactus.JPG |
094 View over arroyo.JPG |
095 Another freshly hatched grashopper hung up to dry.JPG |
096 Lizard.jpg |
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097 Mark scouting the path.JPG |
098 View of Cabo Pulmo Bay.JPG |
099 Snake spine.JPG |
100 Flower.jpg |
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101 Typical vegetation of Baja.JPG |
102 Talitha taking it slowly on the walk.JPG |
103 Cactus with no friends.JPG |
104 Grasshopper.JPG |
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105 Grasshopper.JPG |
106 Grasshopper.JPG |
107 I spy with my little eye, restrooms.JPG |
108 This night we have Titos prepare some of our tuna, good stuff.JPG |
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109 Gecko in our apartment.jpg |
110 He was trying to catch flies that were on the other side of the window.JPG |
111 Friday Talitha also goes diving, 50 minutes at 15 meters.JPG |
112 Juvenile Beaubrummel.jpg |
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113 Balloonfish.JPG |
114 Saturday before we fly out, Mark at whale skeleton.JPG |
115 We rent kayaks and set out for the sea lion colony about 2 miles down south.JPG |
116 When we are close, we see the Mobula manta rays jumping out of the water.JPG |
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117 See, there goes one flying.jpg |
118 There is a whole school of them, see where the water has foamed up a little bit.JPG |
119 The sea lions.jpg |
120 The water is pretty choppy, so we turn around.JPG |
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121 We go into a little bay for a break.JPG |
122 Mark with shell.JPG |
123 Mark looking back towards Cabo Pulmo.JPG |
124 On the final leg of the way back to Cabo Pulmo.jpg |
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