Come to NOLS Mexico!
They teach you everything you need to know and
you'll live out here pretty comfortably and you'll get to see a lot of things
that you'd never get to see on your own.
Awesome days and it is always awesome paddling at sunrise. This is the first time that I have ever actually been on the
sea in a kayak everything I have learned I've learned from
this course. It's awesome
I love it, I'm having so much fun.
It's just amazing all the places we went through.
Down here in mexico on the drascombe longboats we camp on a different beach every night
and have these beautiful beaches and there these pristine, amazing places with
beautiful views. We pull our boats right up to the beach
and we get out and we unload our camping gear and we get out and there we are, somewhere new everyday.
If your thinking about an adventure where you're fully supported but you still have the room to learn and grow for yourself,
NOLS is the way. Its awesome, the blue skies,
the blue water, the stars in the sky at night. It is the best classroom in the world.
Come on down.
It's just Baja, it's beautiful. The Sea of Cortez in Baja is the most beautiful, amazing water environment.
You have to see it for yourself. Come to Mexico, experience the waters here, it's amazing.
The Sea of Cortez offers a lot of unique
places that you cannot find anywhere else in the world. The conditions that
they get here to navigate the Sea of Cortez sailing or kayaking
teach them responsibility. How to have more self-confidence.
NOLS is a great opportunity for personal growth
and it is a great environment that allows people to experience new things and to grow.
It is a great tool for living.
Courses will spend that first morning practicing basic strokes. How to load the
kayak, how to take care of the gear. Once they're out there they go into more
detail on different strokes to control your kayak, braces and stability strokes and
more technical
maneuvering and then that's in addition to all the basic camping skills and how
to live comfortably in this environment.
It's really cool being out here in the desert
and looking at what looks like to be a barren coastline. Even though we know it's not
and knowing that you are just surrounded by so much ocean life.
It's really cool to witness that.
All of us have improved so much, it's just fun to be able to go out in a kayak and
know what your doing and especially in the big surf
its really fun.
Seamanship and sailing have a lot to do with leadership. You have to use all the
skills and leadership
in order to make the boat go safely from one place to another. Its a very dynamic
environment and it requires tolerance for adversity and uncertainty every second.
It's on demand leadership. Some people call it seamanship. We call it leadership.
What NOLS does is teach leadership
in all of our courses and sailing is just the means we use to achieve that down here.
We take students out. First we show them how to sail the boat and then we go into
how to be the first mate on a boat. The designated leadership comes in the
ownership of the boat and the crew. So, when your a first mate on one of our
boats, your in charge of the navigation, when they set sails, when to row, where
the boat goes, how the boat is maneuvered. It requires a pretty advanced set of
leadership skills that we provide you with.
Come to NOLS Mexico! Come sailing with us.
We stop in St. Nicholas at Don Chico's. That's always a highlight for the students.
It is a small community, kind of like an oasis in the middle of no where.
They have a lot of water. So, we get our water reration from him.
Chico has lots of different fruit trees around, he has oranges, banana trees,
coconut, palm. He has like wonderful stories of sharks and big fish and
boats and it's really amazing to talk with him. Its a shock for most of the students
because they haven't seen a family like that before in Mexico.
I've learned a lot about leadership on this course, I came in here with
little to no leadership experience and
NOLS has given me the chance to step out of that shell and become a leader. You could be
the strongest athlete here, it doesn't exactly mean your going to be the best leader.
The best leaders are the ones who are able to communicate as well as listen,
be firm as well as be nice to people. There are times when it's really tough
and you're just tired and you just want to go to bed. You can learn to adapt to new and
uncomfortable situations. So it's a really good learning experience. I'm so glad I came.
It's the best decision I've made. It is a challenge, but you have a whole group of students and instructors
who support you the whole time.
It is one of the best and will be one of the best experiences of my life.
Come to NOLS Mexico!