I won a trip to Cabo san Lucas in 2004.  My mother and I took a tour of the lagoon there, at the tip of the Baja California penensuila.  The boat was a very small one for riding in the ocean, little more than a dinghy.  However, the guide could hold the boat almost motionless in the heaving sea so that I could get my pictures.  He could not, however, always compensate for operator error.  Sometimes I got the boat in the picture.

Other times, though, things worked out better.  This is the arch where the Sea of Cortez, a part of the Gulf of Mexico, meets the Pacific.  It is one of the the best pictures I have ever taken, particularly given the circumstances.  I have a lot more respect for those photographers that take pictures from small boats for magazines and film now.