"Watch the tide & stingrays" San Felipe Things to Do Tip by Mandy23

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Many people enjoy watching the tides and walking along the beach when it happens and actually, San Felipe is known for it's extreme tidal changes. If the tide goes out, it goes reeaally out.
Here's a link for tide calendars

During low tide you might wanna watch for stingrays. They are common in the Sea of Cortez. One of our salesmen down there told us that there's such a thing like the "stingray shuffle". It's basically shuffling your feet while walking forward in the water or walk heavy on the sand during low tide, to avoid being stung by those who may just lay on the bottom and are covered by sand. This will reduce the likelihood that you accidentally step on a buried stingray by giving it a chance to escape.

Photo: Low tide - you can barely see the waterline on the horizon. And at that time the tide was already coming back, so it was actually out even further.

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  • Updated Jun 18, 2006
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