 Mulege, Baja California Sur
The river in Mulege, isn't this beautiful with all of the shades of
green!! |
River in Mulege, Baja California Sur |
 Mulege, Baja California Sur Mexico's version of a 7-11 ?? What a hoot, we got a real kick out of this... :) |
 Mulege, Baja California Sur
The microwave tower between Mulege and Playa Santispac was on top of a
mountain. We took our scooters up there a couple of times. The
view was outstanding! |
 Road to Microwave Tower south of Mulege, Baja California Sur
This picture shows the road on the way up to the Microwave tower. It
was all stones, strategically placed and in really good shape, all things
considered. Pictures can't show how steep or narrow this one lane
road was...or just how high up we went. But believe us, it was really cool. |
Road to Microwave Tower south of Mulege, Baja California Sur |
View from the Microwave Tower south of Mulege, Baja California Sur |
 View from the Microwave Tower south of Mulege, Baja California Sur
Even though neither of us are afraid of heights, even we were conscious of
our distance to the edge of the cliff behind us. Pictures cannot show just how
high we were or how incredibly beautiful it was up there.. |
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Dry river bed south of Mulege, Baja California Sur
This area was also between Mulege and Santispac. All over Baja we
saw rivers called
'arroyos', except that there was no water in them! Of course, they
build bridges over them and in the rainy season the river bed is
carved out deeply. These photos show that there is a lot of water flowing there
at times.
During the dry season there is no water in the river. There are
trees and other vegetation growing in the river bed and they are a
really neat place to explore. |
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Dry river bed south of Mulege, Baja California Sur
Imagine how beautiful it would be to see the river flowing through here!! |
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Dry river bed south of Mulege, Baja California Sur
How interesting and beautiful are these rock formations!?! They
reminded us of those paintings of a winter forest scene, with Palomino
horses hidden in the painting....very beautiful! |
Dry river bed south of Mulege, Baja California Sur |
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Dry river bed south of Mulege, Baja California Sur |
 Playa Santispac, Baja California Sur
Thank goodness Carlos came by before we left Playa Santispac!
Carlos and his shiny new, red truck would come to the beach on a daily basis to sell
'camaron' (shrimp), 'venera' (scallops) and 'pescado' (fish)... oh
my gosh!! We bought so much of seafood! They were fresh, delicious and
cheap!! You could buy a kilo of shrimp for 150 pesos, which is about
$15.00 Canadian. Even when we only had the shrimp and nothing else for
dinner, we could not finish them!! Absolutely scrumptious!! We
miss you Carlos! Goodbye Playa Santispac!! |
 San Ignacio, Baja California Sur
We have now travelled north to San Ignacio. You may remember we
stayed in San Ignacio for a couple of nights on our way south. It is such a quaint and pretty little town we
could not resist a few more pictures... This is a little house near the
square... |
San Ignacio, Baja California Sur |
 Heading North...
This is one of the check points heading north. I don't know if we mentioned,
when heading both south and north there were a number of military and
agricultural check points. Sometimes they
just waved us through and sometimes they stopped us. They came into
our coach with their
uniforms, big boots and even bigger semi-automatic rifles!! This was
so unnerving and intimidating at first... However, we got used to them very
quickly and even started to say a friendly "Hola" and chat with them
while they did their search of the inside of our coach. Most of them were
very young and sweet. It was strange to see these youngsters (16 to
19 year olds, we think) with guns. Of course, we were smart enough not to
carry anything that might upset them and get us arrested, so we really had
nothing to worry about. |
 Just north of Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur
This is the border between Baja Sur and Baja Norte where they they fly a
HUGE Mexican Flag. There is a military post here although we did not
get stopped there. |
 Just north of Guerrero Negro, Baja California Norte
Our friends Jim and Deb told us about this guy who sells the best burritos,
out of his van, just north of Guerrero Negro...so obviously we just had to
stop and eat there :) |
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Just north of Guerrero Negro, Baja California Norte
Jim and Deb mentioned they got ten burritos each for their trip north to
California, so we figured we would do the same. THANK GOODNESS the
fellow misunderstood us and only gave us ten to share! There is no way that
we could eat all of them at once, let alone eat ten each. We figured
out that Deb and Jim must have eaten them for all three meals of the day they
were travelling and maybe even some for the next day of travel. There is
no way that Deb, at 5 foot nothin,' could have eaten ten of these in one
sitting :) |
 Just north of Guerrero Negro, Baja California Norte
Quite the compact set up, eh? Oh, we forgot to mention... he
would take each plate and put it in one of the plastic bags you see here.
Then, when cleaning up he
would remove the bag so he wouldn't have dishes to wash. He'd put
another bag over the plate and be all set for his next
hungry customer. The plate in the previous photo shows you what we mean. Isn't that a great idea!
Now, we do the same thing with our plates so we don't have to wash dishes :) Yea right, in our dreams! |
 Travelling north, Baja California Norte
Pretty, pretty, pretty. As we mentioned, it is much greener and
there are a lot more flowers at this time of the year, compared to when we
travelled south in October... |
 Near La Bufadora south of Ensenada, Baja California Norte
While staying in near La Bufadora we went to see the blow hole, which we'll talk about in a minute. In the meantime look at some of these
pictures of the view... just gorgeous!! |
Near La Bufadora south of Ensenada, Baja California Norte |
La Bufadora, Baja California Norte |
