Dust Storm Across Baja

If you were cruising the outside of Baja or the Sea of Cortez over the Thanksgiving weekend and found the last of your turkey sandwiches tasted a little grittier than normal, huge dust storms on November 27 could have been the reason. NASA caught this spectacular image of two such storms, one starting just north of San Carlos near Isla Tiburon and reaching Baja near Bahia San Franciscquito. The other starts up just downwind of that and covered from Punta Falsa to Bahia Asuncion — including Turtle Bay. We haven’t received reports from cruisers about the event, so perhaps it was a non-event at water level, but we imagine there was more than one cruiser who wondered if someone was playing a practical joke on them by adding sand to their pumpkin pie.