In Guerrero Negro we just stop for lunch and we come across the making of a Mexican soap opera.
Near the city the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon annually becomes mating and breading place of the California Grey Whales.
The whales migrate every year in the lagoon from the Bering Sea, a migration of a few thousand kilometres, and they stop in the lagoon for about two months from the beginning of January to the beginning of March.

Driving further to the South, the National Road 1 crosses the peninsula to lean out on the Sea of Cortez in Santa Rosalia.
Mulegé is a small town about 50 km south of Santa Rosalia and 3 kms inland. The climate of the region is sub-tropical.
Mulegé is one of the most pleasant towns in the Baja California Sur. The village (a little more than 3000 inhabitants) it is situated between 2 hills, in a lush valley that opposes the otherwise arid landscape that characterizes the whole peninsula. In Mulegé we find palms, orchards and bougainvilleas.

Near Mulegé we succeed, despite we are out season, to spot a Grey Whale.

Loreto was the first installation in the Californias (at the time the whole South-West of the actual United States belonged to Spain and the American California was called Alta California).
The Jesuit Juan María Salvatierra founded the city in 1697.