Looking for Whale Sharks

Today is our last full day at Gecko since someone else has reserved our beach shangrila starting tomorrow. We love our beach house because it's at the far end of the camp away from most of the other huts - private and quiet. Hardly anyone else has been here. October seems to be a perfect month to come to Baja; not too hot - temps in 80's to low 90's and the water is still warm. Most people don't start coming down until Nov/Dec.

Toni and Donna had left to take a long walk along the south shore of the bay, and Abraham came over to ask if Kai and I wanted to go out with him to look for whale sharks. He said they usually start coming into the bay in the summer, but for some reason he has only seen a few of them this year. They are 20 to 30 feet long and eat plankton, not people. Some folks even swim with them by grabbing onto a dorsal fin and hitching a ride. I would totally freak if I were swimming and saw one of these giants cruising nearby. The movie "Jaws' has forever altered my relationship with the sea.

Someone reported spotting one yesterday at the end of the bay, so we took the boat out hoping to get a lucky sighting. We didn't find any whale sharks but we enjoyed the cruise around the bay. We saw Donna and Toni on a far away beach and they hitched a ride back to Gecko with us.