Magdalena Bay can be reached by car in a few hours of driving on paved highways from airports at Loreto, La Paz or San Jose del Cabo, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Puerto San Carlos ...

Blue whales return to Loreto Bay National Marine Park sanctuary from January to April, while gray whales calve in nearby Magdalena Bay. Here’s how to make the most of whale-watching season in ...

This is the other side of Mexico from the famous Caribbean resort area. I’m in a lonely stretch of Baja California, heading toward the tiny fishing village of Puerto Cancún on Magdalena Bay in ...

It’s a chilly morning and the orange face of the sun has just poked above the horizon, casting sparkling diamonds of light across the gently undulating waters of Magdalena Bay in Baja California ...

Magdalena Bay, one of three lagoons on Baja California’s Pacific coast, is home to more than 20,000 California gray whales each winter. This extraordinary inland water system is the place to be to ...

It’s one of Baja’s last frontiers, but there are few other places on Earth where so many billfish congregate so predictably. No one just stumbles onto Magdalena Bay, unless they are cruising from San ...

Flanked by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Sea of Cortez to the east, the sun-soaked Baja peninsula is Mexico's undiscovered "West," with its stark desert landscapes, secluded coves and ...

MAGDALENA BAY, Mexico — Just off the bow of our 22-foot open boat — what Baja fishermen call a “panga” — a whale spout erupts with an adrenalin-spiking “fwooosh.” Seawater jets into ...

Six anglers caught a grand total of 606 striped marlin, five blues and seven sails in six and a half days. Courtesy Chris Jessen. The southwestern coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula has long been a hot ...

Just off the bow of our 22-foot open boat what Baja fishermen call a “panga” a whale spout erupts with an adrenalin-spiking “fwooosh.” ... In Mexico’s stunning Magdalena Bay, ...