Our North American sensitivities are appalled by the extent of garbage in the water and on the beaches of Mexico. We have been cruising the outside of the Baja Peninsula, south to Banderas Bay, north to Mazatlan and in the Sea of Cortez for the past 9 months and are continually astonished by the volume of garbage everywhere. Click on the photo to see a PDF version of a letter I submitted to Latitiude 38.