Near Balandra Beach
- Snorkeling
San Rafaelito
A small rock with a lighthouse on it, about nine nautical miles north of Marina Cortez in La Paz, where California sea lions rest. Half-day boats stop beside it so guests can snorkel near the sea lions.
Isla Espíritu Santo
- Whale watching
La Paz
Situated on the Sea of Cortez, known as "The Aquarium of the World." The city offers marinas, beautiful beaches, and opportunities for whale watching, swimming with sea lions, and exploring Espiritu Santo Island.
La Paz Bay
The largest bay on the east coast of Baja California, opening east onto the Sea of Cortez. Isla Espíritu Santo and Isla Partida lie across its mouth, and the port of La Paz sits at its southern end, behind the sand spit of El Mogote.
Ensenada Grande
- Snorkeling
Los Islotes
Rocks off the north end of Isla Partida, in the Espíritu Santo archipelago north of La Paz, home to a colony of California sea lions. Boats anchor off the colony so guests can snorkel near the sea lions, except from June 1 to August 31, when the park closes it to swimmers while they breed.
- Scuba diving
- Fishing
El Bajo (Espíritu Santo Seamount)
A seamount in the Gulf of California north of Isla Espíritu Santo, about 33 nautical miles (61 km) north of La Paz. It rises more than 890 m from the sea floor and is also called El Bajo de Espíritu Santo. Researchers have recorded striped, blue and black marlin, yellowfin tuna and dorado there, and it has been studied since the 1980s for its schools of hammerhead sharks. Sport-fishing boats run out to it for the billfish and tuna, and divers go down on it for the hammerheads.
Isla Jacques Cousteau
An uninhabited island about 29 km long, some 65 km east of La Paz across the Cerralvo Channel from La Ventana and El Sargento. It was Isla Cerralvo until 2009, when Mexico renamed it for Jacques Cousteau, and on the coast it is still called Cerralvo.
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