How's the ecotourism in and around Los Cabos - La Paz, Mexico?

Ecotourism in Los Cabos – La Paz is very interesting. I have not taken any of those tours yet, but I have seen them advertised. Shame on me for not having gone up into the hills because there are deserts, but there are also some beautiful hills and waterfalls. Locals call them mountains, but coming from Washington state, my standard for mountains would be Mount Rainier, so the mountains they have down in southern Baja I call hills. There are beautiful trips that you can take up...

Ecotourism in Los Cabos – La Paz is very interesting. I have not taken any of those tours yet, but I have seen them advertised. Shame on me for not having gone up into the hills because there are deserts, but there are also some beautiful hills and waterfalls. Locals call them mountains, but coming from Washington state, my standard for mountains would be Mount Rainier, so the mountains they have down in southern Baja I call hills. There are beautiful trips that you can take up the hills and I've seen pictures of them. For people who want to try ecotourism, you can certainly sign up for those kinds of things, too. 

 

I used to be in charge of a youth group where we provided scholarships for low income bright young kids to help them get through school and get a high school diploma. I started a program where once a month, we would take them out to do something interesting, fun, and educational. I was always trying to find different things that the kids would enjoy doing to get them out on a field trip. 

 

 

 

One of the things we did was to take a tour far away. I remember that it took us a long time to go there. It was so fun. It was in a truck that looked like an army truck and the bed of the truck had benches on each side. We were way up into the mountains and we searched for whale teeth fossils. It's really interesting how the world has changed over millions of years that you can still go way up in the mountains and find fossils and go fossil hunting.

 

(Turtle, Baja California Sur, Mexico,pictured.)

 

Another time when the turtles were hatching, we asked the municipality to send us a marine biologist to take a group of 36 kids out to release turtles. It was a thrill to be able to do that. We stayed in a little theater in a hotel by the estuary in San Jose del Cabo and they gave the kids a talk and showed them a video about the migration of the turtles so they knew why we were going down to the beach and not just get a turtle to put in the ocean. 

 

That's a big deal and a beautiful thing to do to see these little turtles that have just hatched.  You're protecting them from seagulls because they make a run for the ocean and the seagulls swoop down and eat them before they even get to the water. It's a wonderful activity for tourists to be able to participate in and know that you just saved a little turtle to grow up to be a great, big sea turtle.