Charter Fishing in San Quinton
The Mexican town of San Quintin (not to be confused with the California penal institution of San Quentin) is located on the Pacific coast of the Baja peninsula near the city of Ensenada, about 190 miles south of San Diego. not only is it a popular location for sport fishing and other water sports such as kayaking, scuba diving and surfing, there are also camp grounds, places for bird watching and even clam digging. Interestingly, the land surrounding San Quintin is also a significant agricultural region, and includes some of the new organic farms, the produce of which is starting to show up in supermarkets in the Western U.S.
This popular sport fishing and tourist area was not always known as San Quintin; in 1542, when the Portuguese explorer Juan Cabrillio sailed by, he decided to name it the "Bay of 11,000 Virgins" in honor of the 6th Century martyr Saint Ursula - no doubt in order to attract future settlers. (The Caribbean Virgin Islands are also named in Saint Ursula's honor, as are a group of islands off the eastern coast of Canada.) Six decades later, on 31 October 1602, Spanish explorer Sebastian Vincaino arrived and re-named it for an earlier martyr, Saint Quentinus whose feast day happened to fall on that date.
Commercial and sport fishing operations continue to operate in San Quintin; in addition, there are a few vacation homes, two hotels and 18 oyster farms (oysters are not native to the area, but thrive in the remarkably clean waters in the area). The oysters that are cultivated in San Quintin include the Japanese Miagi and Giant Pacific; they are the only oyster farms outside the Pacific Northwest.
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