“I say to people, ‘You might have been to Cabo, but it is totally different on an island by yourself having a beach barbecue’”
“we’d heard through the grapevine about its legendary reputation, so we decided we had to find out for ourselves whether the legend was true, ” explains the owner of 55-metre Amels Nomad, whose yacht has visited the Baja Peninsula twice in as many years. The main reason that the yacht initially headed to Mexico was because the owner is a passionate spearfisherman. The yacht has now covered both sides of this 650-nautical-mile peninsula on the hunt for extraordinary fishing spots and dive sites.
Baja’s geographical location, splitting the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean, makes it an exceptional location for marine life. “Where these two bodies of water meet, you’ll find’s owner says. One of the owner’s happiest hunting grounds was Magdalena Bay, which sits nearly 150 nautical miles north of Cabo San Lucas on Baja’s Pacific coastline.