Buying Baja
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Photo caption: Kids play soccer on the main drag of Cabo Pulmo, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. […] Photo credit: Kristina Blanchflower. Article by Krista Langlois. Hakai Magazine – May 28, 2024.
The fish are so thick we can see them from the boat, a writhing mass darkening the ocean’s surface, their oily smell rising into the air. Our guide counts us down —“uno, dos, tres!”— and we slip overboard. Within moments, a thousand or more bigeye jack surround us, all slippery silver bodies and trailing fins, unblinking eyes and downturned mouths, below us and in front of us and on either side of us. […]