We’re just 10 minutes out to sea when a large shadow the size of a bus passes under the boat. “There!” our captain says, pulling the boat around. We slow and gaze below in awe as a 28’ whale shark ...

It’s 10 am and I’m on a small blue boat skimming across the Sea of Cortez just off the coast of La Paz, Baja California Sur in Mexico. The water is clear and calm and there’s not a cloud in the sky.

The Maritime Museum of San Diego is set to host a visit from the restored Western Flyer, the same fishing vessel John Steinbeck used for his 1940 Sea of Cortez expedition. Visitors will have the rare ...

The Western Flyer, a fishing vessel made famous by John Steinbeck's book "The Sea of Cortez," is returning to the Gulf of California after 85 years. The renovated vessel will retrace Steinbeck's ...