The most impressive encounter that I have experienced with a marine creature, with a killer whale in fact was when I saw it swallow a turtle in one mouthful. Generally, to us humans, the way in which this great mammal hunts it prey and feeds seems savage, so much so, it has earned the name “killer whale”.
It was a brilliant day, the sun shone down directly on our backs, the sea looked calm and the occasional wave rose up on the horizon.
Dolphins belong to the Delphinidae family, which is the largest and most diverse family of whales due to its successful adaptation to the maritime environment. The family includes numerous species of dolphins, such as pilot whales, false killer and killer whales, which in the fossil register are recorded as dating back at least 11 million years.
For me, sharks have always had a strange, mystical fascination. At first it was fear, then curiosity and now all I feel is respect for these fantastic creatures that have traversed the ocean’s floors for over 300 million years and are now endangered because of indiscriminate fishing.
There are a great variety of whales found along the coast of the Mexican Pacific, an indication of Mexico’s importance as a natural habitat of these species on the list of endangered species. This is the case of the humpback whale, which, during the winter, is abundant in the waters off the states of Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and the two coasts of the Baja California Peninsula.
I was very pleased when I found out that this article was going to be about Loreto, in the Sea of Cortez, because it is one of those places that bring back fond memories.
Giant mantas belong to the same class as sharks and their main feature is their skeleton formed of cartilage. Their ancestors appeared 400 million years ago, between the Siluric and Devonic periods of the Mesozoic era, also knows as the “Era of Fish”.
Do you get excited when you think of someplace remote and pristine? Imagine arriving on a far away island, covered in an intensely green vegetation, with cascades of sweet, fresh water everywhere and surrounded by a vivid blue sea filled with countless forms of life, from the smallest, like jellyfish, to the largest, like whale shark.
The Gulf of California is the youngest sea on our planet. It is the consequence of a geological process and the movement of plates between the floor of the Pacific Ocean and the crust of the American Continent. The movement of these plates started to reduce the crust of the ocean floor some 12 million years ago, and the moment came some six million years ago, when the waters of the Pacific penetrated north, forming a protogulf.
Bahía de Banderas (Banderas Bay), renowned for its impressive beauty, has been classified as one of the 10 loveliest bays in the world. This huge body of water surrounded by mountains covered in lush vegetation offers surprising views.