Fishing in Bahia de Los Angeles

We are back to civilization & the internet, did not miss it at all!
We spent a night at Catavina amongst the huge boulders, cacti & boojum (cirio cactus - fluffy orange tops) at  remote Rancho St Inez. You camp in a big open area, no service except garbage cans & pay 100 pesos ($8), here we saw our first other Canadian license plate.

From there we traveled on rough hiway, having to pass 3 semis stopped on the road, up a hill, just before a blind corner - this is Baja!

We crested the hill to a beautiful sight of blue-green water dotted with islands - we had reached Bahia de Los Angeles. We set up in an abandoned old government campsite (built in the 70's when the hiway was built but not maintained), right on the water & free. Robin did some landscaping, put up our solar lights, filled the hummingbird feeder, sprinkled the ant powder & we sat down with  cervesas! This small fishing village only received power in 2007, until then they relied on a generator that was turned off at night - you can still see advertising for 24 hr electricity! We had a long stretch of beach, almost deserted, sea shells all to ourselves. We finally put the line in our new fishing gear that we bought last spring & started fishing from shore - but nada the first day. Our Quebecois friends arrived the next day & we had a good 3 day visit, tried out 2 restaurants in town & shared a few drinks.
We went out in the kayak every day - so peaceful & relaxing except for a few wavy days. We managed to catch only 3 halibut 15 - 19" & good eating! We saved some in the freezer for later. We also caught lots of puffer fish (poisonous) & I snagged a couple baby rays. We almost caught a blue-footed booby bird, he kept diving after our hooks!
We thoroughly enjoyed relaxing on the beach, watching pelicans, boobies & gulls feeding, we even saw whales spouting in the distance.
We woke one morning to grey, overcast skies & soon the rain hit. It rained all day, at one point we were a little worried about the stability of the land we were parked on. The next day dawned clear & sunny again, temps in low 20's.
We caused quite the uproar with the birds as we cleaned our fish - at least 20 pelicans & many noisy gulls descended on us looking for scraps - all  much too close for comfort!

We did some rock-hounding & hiking in the area, more for the collection of course. We drove 16 km out of town at a max. speed of 20 km/hr (such a great road) hoping to find  an old abandoned silver  mine - Las Flores.  We were successful, but not much to see, just several tailings piles & falling down buildings - no treasure. We are still not sure what the silver looks like before it is crushed - the piles were all a rusty colored gravel, but we dug around in them anyway.

We actually started playing crib again, surprisingly the "how to" came back to us, along with some good memories of  Louis & Nancy.

We are now in Guerrero Negro for the night to stock up & do a pile of laundry, then off to San Lucas cove, another fishing spot. Hopefully our internet stick works there as well. We sent off our Christmas cards today, hopefully they arrive before New Years!

We are, as always, loving this lazy lifestyle! For the record I actually took the sunrise picture!