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The magic of Magdalena Bay and Cabo Pulmo does not disappoint
Nov 3 – 11 2024 Magdalena Bay & Cabo Pulmo Marine Park Baja Mexico
![Striped marlin hunting sardines](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A7891-1024x693.jpg)
Magdalena Bay was a bit cold this year, but the sardines were numerous and we had many great drops onto active bait balls. This year there were not the golden doratos like last year, but this ensured that we had the striped marlins on the bait balls. We were able to capture some great predation action with shots of the marlin scewering fish with its bill and making attack runs at the schools of fish.
![Photography trip Magdalena Bay](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A8011-1024x882.jpg)
![Magdalena Bay sardine bait ball](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A7966-842x1024.jpg)
![Striped Marlin at Magdalena Bay](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A7877-1024x736.jpg)
Magdalena Bay is always magic and any marine species is possible: we had encounters with killer whales – orcas, dolphin, schools of rays. A groups just after us encountered a moa moa.
![Magdalena Bay boat](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ABLU1794-1024x768.jpg)
![Striped Marlin Magdalena Bay](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A7761-863x1024.jpg)
Before the guests arrived for our transfer to Magdalena Bay, I stayed in the Gallery District in Cabo San Lucas for the Day of the Dead festival. The costumes and colorful displays are wonderful street photography subjects.
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![Striped Marlin at Magdalena Bay](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A7877-1024x736.jpg)
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![Striped Marlin Magdalena Bay](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A7761-863x1024.jpg)
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![Photographing schools of fish at Cabo Pulmo](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A8103-1024x725.jpg)
Cabo Pulmo Marine Reserve is well managed and we enjoy the variety of diving including the mega schools of jacks and the dives with the bull sharks.
![Schools of fish at Cabo Pulmo](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A8094-1024x682.jpg)
![grouper fish at Cabo Pulmo](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A8178-1024x1024.jpg)
![Diving at Cabo Pulmo with schools of fish](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A8187-1024x964.jpg)
![Bull shark Cabo Pulmo Diving](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A8253-1024x767.jpg)
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![stingray cabo pulmo diving](https://gregorysweeney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/213A8321-1024x768.jpg)
You can see details for my next underwater photography trip to Baja Mexico on my website with this link.