Travel Log, January 1st - 31st, 2005
Part 1
(see below map for details)
Days - 156 to 186
Total Miles Traveled this month - 177
Total Miles Traveled to January 31/05 - 4,168
Well, it's a new year! We have been traveling for six months now, and what an incredible trip it has been. We stayed at Santispac for most of January before heading south down the rest of Baja for the first time. We left just before the end of the month in order to meet up with Cindy's parents in Cabo San Lucas on the 3rd of February.
It was great to be travelling again, and to experience new
places and scenery.
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege
This is the official launch of the "Sail" boat on January 1st. We have had our
Minto in the water many times with both the motor and the oars...but here
we are putting it in the water to sail for the first time.
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege
This is the other flag we made for our neighbors and friends for Christmas.
Can anyone guess what that is on it? Hint: It is basically a warning to
let everyone on the beach know that they may want to be 'up wind' for the
next few hours. What do you think? |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege And to think it is January!! What a gorgeous day :) |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege We got a chuckle out of this one! It looks like Barry is sitting in
a bath tub :) It gives you an idea of just how small our boat is.
Look at the gorgeous woodwork... |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege
Ok...this is kind of cool. Down the beach from where we are staying
there is a lagoon. In the lagoon, the water is not as clear as the
ocean and the lagoon is
surrounded by Mangrove bushes. We were tooling around in our boat,
when we saw this opening with steam coming out of it. See that white area in the
Mangroves? Well, we realized it was a hot spring. It really was
intriguing and we decided to take a closer look... |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege
This picture shows both the opening, the roots of the Mangroves and the
steam from the hot spring much better than the last picture... |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege
As you can see we had our boat right in there, it was so cool, we really
enjoyed our time exploring there. |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege
Now is Tiki not the cutest dog you ever did see!! |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege
Our friends and neighbors, Deb & Jim, had to go back to the States, we
were in the habit of having "Happy/View Hour" with them, here we are
toasting them, and wishing they were here...We miss you guys!! |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege Here is another sunrise picture for you Janelle. Just in case anyone is interested in Janelle and her books please feel free to visit her website at :
Janelle Breese Biagioni |
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Playa Santispac, south of Mulege
We have now defined our space with rocks, and painted those rocks white.
Our friend Jack was good enough to bring us the rocks and offered to put
his catamaran beside our little palapa. Our neighbors Jim & Deb had
permission for this space to be 35'x35', so that is what we cordoned off.
It is just great, we had been frustrated, on occasion, by people parking their
RV's very close to the palapa, since we did the above we have not had any
more concerns... |
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Just south of Playa Santispac
We have now left Santispac and have started our travels down the Baja
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View of Posada Concepcion, Baja
California Sur |
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View of Playa Los Cocos, Baja
California Sur |
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Just south of Playa Los Cocos, Baja
California Sur |
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View of Playa El Burro, Baja California Sur We have decided to stay for a
night in El Burro campground. Which is kind of funny, since it is
only about 5 km south of Playa Santispac and is on the same bay :)
We thought it would be neat to have a bit of a different view for a night
before we really begin our travels. |
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Playa El Burro, Baja California Sur |
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Playa El Burro, Baja California Sur |
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Playa El Burro, Baja California Sur |
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Playa El Burro, Baja California Sur
Aaahhhh!!! This is the life. We have not bought a lot of
things in
Mexico, but we did splurge for a double hammock and called it a Christmas
gift to each other. The palapa at El Burro is much sturdier than the
cute little one we have at Santispac, so now we are able to use the
hammock here... |
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Playa El Burro, Baja California Sur |
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Playa El Burro, Baja California Sur |
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Playa El Burro, Baja Sur, Mexico Ok...here we go...this is a bottle of Gusano Rojo, limes, salt and a shot glass with a worm in it. The worm came from the bottle of Gusano Rojo. Gusano Rojo is like Tequila, only in our opinion tastier, with more body AND it has this worm. The custom is... the person who takes the last shot from the bottle is also supposed to swallow the worm with their shot. Barry had the pleasure, and the nerve, to do it when we finished our first bottle, a few months ago. Gusano Well you guessed it. Guess who's turn it was this time? Do you think she actually did it? See action shots below :)
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Playa El Burro, Baja California Sur
All right Cindy!! And it looks like she actually had fun doing it :) |
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Berthas' Restaurant at Playa El Burro
While staying at El Burro we went to eat at Bertha's Restaurant. Barry
had ordered a
Pacifico and it was
just huge, almost one liter...and the bowl of soup was our appetizer. You will notice
that there is no picture of our actual meal, which
were burritos for Cindy and stuffed chili peppers for Barry, we must
have been very hungry :) |
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Playa El Burro
Did we mention Cindy's burritos were stuffed with pork? Sorry not
funny...just outside of the restaurant was this cute pig having a bite to
eat himself...only in Baja :) |
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Baja California Sur, Playa El Burro |
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