We headed out from Portland to Baja through Oregon and Northern California. After staying with our delightful friends Annika and Ross (who can also whip up a mean dinner) we had our next stop in Joshua Tree National Park. We tooled around that area a little, and then headed for the border. We had no trouble at the border crossing - Tecate crossing is highly recommended!
We kept on trucking south, passing through some amazing desert. Baja has about 120 species of cactus, plus lots of other interesting and strange looking plants. We've been taking it easy, getting out of the car a lot to hike and poke around. We made our first long stop in Bahia de los Angeles, a beautiful bay on the Gulf Coast. On our way there, we were momentarily involved in the Baja 100 when two racing motorcycles passed us on the road. The race happens once a year, and 99% of it is off road, so it was pretty funny to be a part of the action for the 1% of the time it was on the highway headed to the same small fishing village that we were. The village was bustling with people setting up for pit stops, and we got to check out tire changes close up. It was pretty exciting.
We spent the last day or so on a small empty beach owned by a couple friendly guys called La Gringa. David saw about a billion birds he was excited about, including reddish egret, yellow-footed gull, elegant tern, long-billed curlew, and marbled godwit. I saw dolphins. We're now on the road again, headed south to Baja Sur.
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| Hiking around boulder fields at Catavina. |
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| David drove his honda up and tried to get a free oil change. |
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| Pit stop on a motorcycle. Everything was completed in 20 seconds. |
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| View from Bahia de los Angeles campsite. We were in a palapa, which is a type of partially-walled shelter with a thatched roof common around here. |
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| David sneaking up on birds on La Gringa beach. |
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| Lunch of potatoes and fresh clams. |
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| From left to right: Two elephant trees, flowering century plant, and a boojum (cirio). |
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