Humpback Whales Surprise Paddlers Off Baja Coast National Geographic
go to original April 10, 2015

In the remote waters off Mexico's Baja Peninsula, explorers Justin DeShields and Bryan Morales come face-to-blowhole with a couple of giant humpback whales. (National Geographic)

The Baja Peninsula is home to daunting ocean currents, harsh desert landscapes, and narrow mountains that jut into perilous cliffs. But Baja’s undeveloped and untouched beauty is exactly what attracts adventurer and National Geographic grantee, Justin DeShields, to its inhospitable environment. “In the last hundred years there were about five people that have attempted to walk [the Baja Peninsula]. That’s what spurred me: ‘wow, this really is something that isn’t done often,’” DeShields says.

Along with fellow explorer Bryan Morales, DeShields hiked 600 miles and paddleboarded 400 miles of the peninsula’s unforgiving terrain. Before long, the dangers began to present themselves.

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