Isla San Jose And Puerto Gato, Baja California, Mexico
Can you see it? We couldn’t until it moved. Then we realized it was a black-tailed jackrabbit! And it didn’t immediately take off like a bullet either. It just walked to the back of the bush next to it, and we couldn’t see it again. Immobility is a marvelous defense mechanism among prey animals, as well as among predators.
In the morning, we had stopped at Isla San Jose, at a point called Punta Colorada, where we enjoyed a series of Miocene (20 million year-old) fossils of whale ribs and a vertebra (included among limestone at sea level near our landing site). This place is considered the most beautiful hike in Baja California, as we walk along a dry arroyo, where the views of red sandstone and pearly-white phosphorite are just incredible. Wind-blown and water cut, the rare forms are lovely. Quite a few cacti were encountered, as well as a few plants in bloom, and tarantula hawks at the flowers of the milkweed.
After lunch, we repositioned north to Puerto Gato, a place on the mainland of Baja California, where we kayaked and later had a small hike and ended the day with a barbecue on the beach..A marvelous day!
Can you see it? We couldn’t until it moved. Then we realized it was a black-tailed jackrabbit! And it didn’t immediately take off like a bullet either. It just walked to the back of the bush next to it, and we couldn’t see it again. Immobility is a marvelous defense mechanism among prey animals, as well as among predators.
In the morning, we had stopped at Isla San Jose, at a point called Punta Colorada, where we enjoyed a series of Miocene (20 million year-old) fossils of whale ribs and a vertebra (included among limestone at sea level near our landing site). This place is considered the most beautiful hike in Baja California, as we walk along a dry arroyo, where the views of red sandstone and pearly-white phosphorite are just incredible. Wind-blown and water cut, the rare forms are lovely. Quite a few cacti were encountered, as well as a few plants in bloom, and tarantula hawks at the flowers of the milkweed.
After lunch, we repositioned north to Puerto Gato, a place on the mainland of Baja California, where we kayaked and later had a small hike and ended the day with a barbecue on the beach..A marvelous day!
