Sailing with the spirits of John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts on a new voyage of discovery around Baja California
The Log
Click
on the links below to follow along on our voyage
back to the Sea of Cortez.
March
11-March 25:
Preparing to embark
March
26-April 6:
The Pacific Coast—
Eating our way through the ecosystem
April
7-12:
Cabo San Lucas to La Paz—
A coast "ferocious with life"
April
13-18:
Isla Cayo to El Estuche—
A remote roadless coast full of spirits
April
19-22:
Loreto to Santa Rosalia—
A new generation of conservationists
April
23-30:
Cabo Virgenes to Puerto Refugio—
Encounters with the jumbo squid
May
1-7:
Puerto Peñasco to Isla San Pedro Martir—
Drifting in a mysterious gyre
May
8-12:
San Carlos to Agiabampo—
Two faces of the Sea of Cortez
May
13-17:
La Paz—Why
we know we must return
to the Sea of Cortez
May
18-May 23:
La Paz to San Quintin—
Coming home through the "Baja Bash"
photo by
L.A. Cicero
Stanford News Service
Links
•Scientific
Research Plan,
Crew and Collaborators
•Why
I Am Going Back
to the Sea of Cortez
by Bill Gilly
•
Annotated Links to Baja &
the Sea of Cortez Online
• Ocean Oasis: A Film
and Web site
about the Sea of Cortez
• Hopkins Marine
Station
of Stanford University
•
The Martha Heasley Cox Center
for Steinbeck Studies
•
Steinbeck Fellows Program
at San Jose State University
• The National
Steinbeck Center
Baja
California & The Sea of Cortez
Image provided by SeaWiFS Project
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
and ORBIMAGE
The Western
Flyer:
the fishing boat that John Steinbeck
and Ed Ricketts took to
the Sea of Cortez.
photo
courtesy Bob Enea.
The Gus-D:
the fishing boat we will take
back to the Sea of Cortez.
Sea of Cortez:
A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
The Log from the Sea of Cortez