#baja california peninsula

[northameicanblog]

Los Cabos, Mexico: Los Cabos is a municipality located at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, in the state of Baja California Sur. It encompasses the two towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo linked by a thirty-two-km Resort Corridor of beach-front properties and championship golf courses. Wikipedia

#Los Cabos #Mexico #Baja California Peninsula

[vintagecamping]

Camping "light" in Baja.

Mexico

1989

#vintage camping #campfire light #mexico #road trips #baja california peninsula #toyota #exploring #1980s

[cr-inge]

#Cabo #mexico #baja california peninsula #beachcore

[accomtour]

Unveiling Winter Wonders: Things to Do in Los Cabos in January

Things to Do in Los Cabos in January – Los Cabos, a mesmerizing destination nestled at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, is not just a summer paradise. In fact, January holds its own charm, offering a unique set of experiences for visitors. If you find yourself in Los Cabos during this month, here are some must-try activities that will make your winter getaway truly…

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#Adventure at Land&039;s End #Baja California Peninsula #Culinary Events #January Travel #los cabos #San Jose del Cabo #Sunset Cruise #Whale Watching

[amazingtripideas]

#cabo #baja california peninsula #mexico #road trip

[illguzee]

La lobera, San Quintín BC Mx.

#birds #wild life #sea #landscape #baja california peninsula #flying

[bencgtravels]

My Top 10 Songs of 2022: #9 - Mt. Wolf (feat. Henry Green) - "Baja"

#9 - Mt. Wolf (feat. Henry Green) - "Baja"

Another beautiful song from Mt. Wolf who feature regularly in my end of year top 10s. This one is dedicated to the famous whales, seas and ecosystem of Baja California in Mexico. I'm really looking forward to the band's second album. Until then, I recommend checking our their first album Aetherlight and their numerous singles such as Hypolight, Life Size Ghosts, Tayrona, Red and Midnight Shallows!

#youtube #music #2022 in review #songs of the year #year in review #relaxing music #mt. wolf #baja #alternative music #mexico #baja california peninsula

[bamajaz02]

Primera vez practicando Kayak en los Humedales de San Quintín parece que el tiempo no pasa💕🔥✨

#kayak #humedales #volcano #baja california peninsula #travelblogger #original photographers #conocemexico

[rozann]

Nubes en carretera

#nubes #carretera #baja california peninsula #photography

[ysabelmystic]

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

EDIT AUGUST 19th

Hilary will hit the Baja peninsula this evening at a category 2. It will arrive in southern California as a tropical storm on Sunday evening before weakening and moving into Nevada as a tropical depression.

THAT SAID: for the Americans here, even if the storm is “weak”, I want to emphasize that the main danger is rain. We are most concerned about flooding. If you are in an area at risk for flooding, take appropriate precautions as per your city or state officials’ or the noaa’s directions. Even if you end up only being mildly inconvenienced, it is better to be prepared. Go to a friend or relatives house if you live near a body of water or a very low-lying area. Make sure you have water bottles and nonperishable foods. Keep your pets indoors. Don’t wade or drive into puddles.

Anyways, here’s some maps from the NHC

And here’s a link with information in Spanish.

AUGUST 20 FINAL UPDATE

Updated info from the NHC website.

Newsom also issued a state of emergency for parts of Southern California. Widespread flooding is expected.

Good luck y’all

#hurricane #hurricane hilary #severe weather #severe storm #storms #weather #climate change #california #Mexico #Arizona #nevada #Utah

[amnhnyc]

Ever heard of the five-toed worm lizard (Bipes biporus)? This burrowing critter isn’t a snake: It’s a member of a group called amphisbaenians, which include mostly legless reptiles. Growing about 8.3 in (21.1 cm) long, this species is an ectotherm, which means its body temperature depends on its immediate environment. Using its tiny clawed digits to dig underground, it tends to hang out closer to the surface during the early hours of the day, then burrows deeper below the Earth as the Sun peaks. It can be found in Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. 

Photo: gerardo_marron, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

#nature #animals #dyk #weird animals #animal kingdom #animal facts #five toed worm lizard #fact of the day #strange animal

[herpsandbirds]

Mexican Mole Lizard (Bipes biporus), family Bipedidae, endemic to the Baja California peninsula of Mexico

photograph by Michael Cravens

#bipes #bipedidae #mole lizard #lizard #reptile #hepretology #mexico #animals #nature

[vintagecamping]

Packed up and ready for a Baja adventure

California

1989

#vintage camping #campfire light #baja california peninsula #toyota 4runner #family camping #adventure #road trips

[mysticdoodles]

hi i saw a post about the fish playing with the human child and even though your addition to that post is 3 years old by now i would love to hear more about ftm sheephead fish :3 (no pressure btw!)

Fish curiosity, in my inbox?? It's more likely than I think, apparently! xD

First off, there's actually multiple fish dubbed 'sheephead'! There's the sheepshead- note the extra S in there- and they look like this:

And yes those are their teeth. Horrifying tbh, but they're very good at what they do- crushing invertebrates and other shelled snacks! They're an Atlantic species that sticks to temperate and warmer waters, and they max out at about half a meter in length.

That's not the fish we're talking about today. The focus of today is the California sheephead wrasse- note the lack of a second S- also known as the 'sheephead' for short. Not confusing at all! We definitely don't bash our heads into walls over the naming conventions and lack of record-keeping of our scientist predecessors.

THIS is the sheephead wrasse, the species of the lovely and now Tumblr-famous Red! :D With a length of up to a FULL meter, they're a whole different size class of fish! They can be found along the west coast USA from the Baja Peninsula all the way up to Monterey, and dwell almost exclusively in kelp forests and nearby environments. I will use one of Red's pics as an example of female coloration-

The lighting isn't great but you can see how her body is streamlined, and besides the white underside of the jaw, has a salmon-pink coloration! Females can be pink or a dull silver-beige. And much like other large marine wrasse, MALES have a drastically different appearance.

This thing is built like a damn tank!! Sheephead are a species of wrasse that shift colors to gain those striking black scales and physically bulk up when becoming males- because guess what? ALL OF THEM ARE BORN FEMALE! By default, all male California Sheephead are FTM trans :) They use that bulky head and extremely tough set of jaws to not only hunt their preferred prey- mollusks, gastropods, and bivalves, etc- but also to bash and chomp down on rival males. This one has won many battles, look at that scarred up muzzle!

The sex change is determined by several factors, as it's not guaranteed all sheephead will eventually become males. Because sheephead school in a harem system- many females to very few males- in order to maximize pressure of stronger offspring, the biggest and healthiest sheephead male will drive out competition from the school. Naturally, a sheephead that lives longer and gains a greater size will have a much higher chance of shifting from a female to a male, if the conditions are right. Stress induced from competition can suppress the hormones that stimulate this transition in females, so they're less likely to gain size and shift from female to male if there's already strong competition taking place. However, in the event there are too few males to mate with the females, or no males present at all, the biggest female will start transitioning to fill the empty slot! It's a long process that can take as few as a couple months, or up to years, depending on resources available.

Conversely, if there are TOO MANY males, they can revert back into females! This process also takes a long time, and is a lot more rare to witness, especially because right now male California sheephead in particular are being spear-fished into becoming an Endangered species :c Sheephead adult males in good condition are considered a trophy animal in spear-fishing and similar marine trophy hunting off the West coast, and because males in particular are being targeted, the gene pool is being reduced when it wrecks the harem structure of schools.

As a fun fact- they're also an incredibly smart fish, and can form relationships with humans, as demonstrated with me and sweetiepie Red cx There's many documented cases of large marine wrasses forming long-term friendships with divers! Here's a humphead wrasse that made friends with a diver she learned would crack snails open for her with a hammer:

I don't work at the facility with Red anymore, but I currently work with two unnamed adult male sheephead, and once again they both like me and seem to despise all my coworkers, even if I never had the opportunity to train them like I did with little Red xD They pick favorites I guess? Now if only I could make friends with the garibaldi...

#marine life #marine biology #Sheephead wrasse #California sheephead #sheephead #wrasse #fish

[lonestarflight]

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan's view from and of the Gemini-9A spacecraft during his extravehicular activity (EVA). Taken during the 32nd revolution of the 72-hour, 21-minute spaceflight.

"'What a beautiful spacecraft,' said Gemini IX pilot Eugene Cernan during his two hour, eight minute spacewalk. He took this wide-angle photograph looking back at the window where command pilot Tom Stafford was watching."

"Northwestern Mexico as seen from the Gemini-9A spacecraft during its 32nd revolution of Earth. The large penisula is Baja California. The body of water at lower right is the Pacific Ocean. The land mass at upper left is the State of Sonora. The Gulf of California separates Sonora from the peninsula."

Date: June 5, 1966

NASA ID: S66-38032, S66-38044, S66-38046, S66-38047, S66-38048, link, S66-37989, S66-38048, S66-38049, S66-38050, S66-38051, S66-38055, S66-38068, S66-38070

#GT-9 #GT-IX #Gemini 9 #Gemini IX #GT-9A #GT-IX-A #Gemini 9A #Gemini IX-A #SC9 #NASA #Gemini Program #Project Gemini #spacewalk #June #1966 #Eugene Cernan #Thomas Stafford #space #Earth #my post

[thedumbboy14]

So... I had a conversation with my friends and we ended up wondering how would PJO be if it was a Mexican telenovela. So, like any normal person would, I made a whole ass drawing of Mexican Percy.

He's from Baja California Sur, specifically from La Paz. Why? Because:

a) Baja California Sur is known for having the sea of Cortez, which is also known as "The world's aquarium" because of its biodiversity.

b) Baja California Sur is a peninsula and New York a bunch of islands, not the same but close enough.

c) Beaches in Baja California Sur are very similar to beaches in New York.

d) I just love the idea of Percy lazing around the malecón and being just like me🫶🫶🫶.

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #mexico #mexican #annabeth chase #jason grace #grover underwood #heroes of olympus #rick riordan #leo valdez #piper mclean #nico di angelo #frank zhang #hazel levesque #reyna avila ramirez arellano #luke castellan #sally jackson #poseidon #headcanon #i dont fucking know #drawing #art #fanart