San Felipe Baja California Mexico - Travel and Vacation Guide

With the recent completion of the paved road between Ensenada and San Felipe, motorists get an unusual opportunity to cover a wide area of Baja Norte (including its three largest cities). The drive embraces many scenic surprises and several types of climate, and includes a variety of affordable attractions.

San Felipe, on the east coast of Baja, nestles between the Sea of Cortez and the foothills of the Sierra San Pedro Martin It is a popular place for fishermen and well known to the camper set.

There's good fishing year round for such bottom fish as sea trout, corbina, and baya. Punta San Felipe (north of town) is a good spot to try your luck ashore, or you can rent a boat and equipment in town. If you take your own boat, you can launch it at the village or at the cove of Punta Ensenada Blanca. Large boats take passengers for a day of fishing around Gonzaga Island, 18 miles out, as well as to Punta Estrella or Punta Ensenada Blanca. Fishing boats can be chartered for trips to Bahia de los Angeles.

If you'll be fishing from a small boat, do it in the morning; the breeze that comes up around noon makes offshore boating dangerous. Also watch for the freak tides that leave shore boats high and dry a good time to try clamming.

Plans are afoot to pave the highway south of town past the rather aloof little American fishing resort of Puertecitos to Bahia Gonzaga and Bahia de los Angeles.