We have been in Cabo for almost 2 months; in a few days we
start our journey northward, here is a look at the last month.
We like our road trips so we thought we would take the coast
road (mainly sand with a bit of gravel) and head north to Los Barriles. We didn’t
realize that there was an off road race going on, using the road we were on –
imagine our surprise we when came upon a barricade and a whole lot of dust! We
had to turn around and go back, 70 km so instead we made it a beaches day,
complete with picnic.
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| coastal road |
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| goats everywhere here |
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| off-road racing |
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| picnic on the beach |
Todos Santos is an “artsy” town north along the Pacific; we
did a day trip there with Barb & Bill, friends who are also camping here in
Cabo Glorieta. Lots of handicrafts to see, lunch & beer and a stop at the
blanket factory.
We have gotten the hang of doing timeshare presentations –
we have done a total of 5, all included breakfast, drinks if you wanted,
sitting thru their “spiel”, touring the property and telling them we weren’t
interested. We have netted $950 US cash, 2 separate whale watching tours, a
sunset dinner cruise and a bottle of Kahlua. If it was up to Robin we would
have done more, but I got tired of them – plus we had to lie and say we were
staying in a hotel or resort. Not too hard to do as the guy who sets you up
coaches you beforehand. The fanciest was Diamante, with the world’s 2nd
largest swimming pool and the world’s 38th best golf course.
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| the pool at Diamante |
We have done another trip out to look for fossils and Megaladon teeth(ancient shark), found more large fossilized bones but no teeth.
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| fossilized bones, ? whale |
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| cacti blooming |
Took in the San Jose Organic market - huge outdoor market
with everything from fruit & veggies to handicrafts to lunch, plus music.
Lots of new ideas for crafts for us.
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| beautiful bead work |
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| Megaladon teeth |
The water here is pretty cold, mid 70’s F but I have been
snorkeling a few times. We spend lots of time at the beaches, looking for sea
glass, wading in the water and people watching. If we are lucky we see whales
and bat rays.
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| Chileno beach |
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| 3 cruise ships in Cabo harbor |
We did our 2nd whale watching trip, didn’t even
get wet this time! Saw a gray whale very close to shore and fortunate to see
two whales breaching together!
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| dolphins swimming with our boat |
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| 2 humpbacks breaching! |
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| rolling humpbacks |
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| baby humpback doing rolls |
It is much too easy to go out for meals here, food is good
and prices are very good. We have found a good Chinese place and have now had
shark fin soup. We went out for seafood with friends and had a Mexican family
in to the park for supper with Barb & Bill one day. The Mexican family
lived and worked at the RV park we stayed in 3 & 4 years ago – Julio brought
his 3 kids & wife plus his cousin’s family – 10 of them piled out of an old
Honda Civic!
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| Bill & Barb, Chris & Bert |
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| Julio & family |
We made it to Los Barriles, took the hiway instead of the
dirt coast road – ran into a Spanish couple that we met this year and had a
good visit. Checked out the campgrounds, still too windy for us there.
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| Tropic of Cancer monument |
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| wall mural |
We had a crazy rainstorm one day, must have gotten 2 inches
in a couple hours, rivers of water everywhere.
We decided to venture out on another road trip, soon after
the rainstorm, a bit worried about the roads but what the heck! Initially the
plan was to go north & east but instead we took a gravel road west,
stopping to wander about here & there checking out rocks. A fellow
traveller came along on his bicycle and told us that the road “should” continue
across the mountains to Todos Santos. So of course we decided to keep going.
The road slowly deteriorated into a goat trail! We only had to stop and
actually “rebuild” the road once (fill in holes with big rocks). We crossed
water 11 times, scraped bottom several times and I had my eyes closed a few
times! It was 55 km. across, once we saw the Pacific we got excited, but ended
up still having 20 km to go. But we made it! We deserved a beach break by then
so we stopped at Cerritos beach on the Pacific to watch the surfers and the
waves. Then back south an hour drive to
Cabo.
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| goat trail! |
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| had to add rocks here |
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| Cerritos beach |
We have neighbors here in an RV from Alaska – they are 80
& 84, but they don’t look it –they have shamed us into getting more active.
She walks 4 miles most days and he goes out on his bicycle for a long ride. We
have started taking a morning walk/jog, at least 3-5 km. – we figure it’s a
start. Plus it should help offset the cervesas and good food.
We continue to feed the birds, so had to add a couple shots.
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| Cardinal |
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| woodpecker & cardinal enjoying the "shower" from the hose |
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| gray thrasher |
Being in a city here it is easy to forget that this is still a 3rd world country - then you see kids everywhere being held in arms in cars, no car seats or even seat belts; you see walkers still being sold and you read about cars that are made to be sold in Mexico where the air bags are options! And the presence of the police and military is hard to miss. Sad.
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| baby walkers, long outlawed in Canada |
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| yes those are machine guns! |
We leave Cabo on March 1 to begin our month long trek home;
we will hopefully fit in a beach stay, some more sight-seeing and catch up with
some old friends. We continue to “live the dream” – but it sure will be good to
see the kids and grandkids soon.
