Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) - Mexico

I spent the day at Playa Hermosa and Playa Bonita. I arrived in the morning at low tide, and high tide came in the afternoon. High tide is the best for swimming. This area is part of the Altar Desert, one of the driest, and hottest areas of the larger Sonoran Desert. Geologists estimate the Gulf originated more than 4 million years ago due to a clash of tectonic plates that caused the Baja California peninsula to drift westward from Mexico's mainland. The area now containing the gulf subsided, allowing ocean water to flow in from the south.