Mexico

Mexico is sometimes the best place in the world. Sometimes. Its relaxing and even when you cross the border and the stench of Tijuana overcomes your senses, you feel outside the normal element. No stress, except for the fact you may get shot by the Cartels. But the place in question is not Tijuana, it's a place located halfway down Baja in a town that is walkable from one end to the other in fewer than 10 minutes.

But relief of stress isn't the reason I've come to love the place. Its the culture, the siesta, friendliness, the fishing village...the fish.

Large and powerful, the yellowtail here are of a different breed. They've surely eaten their wheaties. The leopard grouper are similar in habit to California's Calico bass-only larger. Much larger.

But the short story is we dove and video'd for four days, drove for 2, and among four divers managed four yellowtail and one large Leopard Grouper. I got to try my new Tommy Botha 65" Tuna gun (demolished the face of a Yellowtail) and the other gun was my trusty 130cm Carbon Fiber Rabitech Apex that is so accurate you'd wonder if there was a homing device on the spear. The leopard grouper was shot in a cave 10ft deep with this gun.

And though there wasn't much fish this time around, it won't stop me from going back. Because it is that sometimes that has me loving the place.