telebrewer
Advanced Member
I finally have a little time to get some trip reports up.
We went down to Baja during Thanksgiving break. We hadn't been down for 2 1/2 years because of all the cartel violence. Plus we have two little guys now and things get put in a different perspective.
We got our visas stamped early A.M. and got directly on the toll road to Ensenada. In Maneadero we were detoured because of a huge parade that closed the highway down. It turns out it was Mexican Independence day. Bicentennial Independence day. Every town we came to had a parade going on. They shut down the highway for these. We found some side roads and arroyos to get around some. And others we had to wait. This set us back of our plan to make it to L A bay in one day. After El Rosario, smooth sailing. We pulled in at dusk to Dagget's camp just for one night while the full moon was rising. My wife and I were so happy to be in Baja again.
The next day we packed up headed south a bit to a secluded beach a friend told me of. Got stuck up to the frame because my FWD wasn't working. It turned out, I had a new steering box put in right before we left and the guy knocked the vacuum connection off the vacuum pump. I traced it back from the axle, put didn't go far enough to find the problem. I had my transfer case rebuilt about a month before and I thought something had gone wrong in there. So after a three hour dig out, we landed on hard ground and popped up. A beautiful white sand beach with not a person in sight. Just what we love about Baja.
The second night the wind came up. I didn't think it was that windy. Well it blew one of our kayaks into the gulf. The next morning when the wind died, we saw it with binoculars about five miles out. Way too far to go and pick it up. We watched it as the wind picked up from the north start heading south. We said "bye bye" kayak and learned once again to secure your stuff in Baja. Years ago I saw the wind take an aluminum boat with an outboard on it and flip it down the beach like it was a piece of paper. So we ran into my friend a couple days later and told him about our loss. He said a kayak washed up at someone's house in the south end of the bay. We went down and found the guy. He said he told the police a kayak washed up in case it may have been an accident. He said the police took it for evidence. So we went into town and there it was in the police yard. After a lot of questions and identifying marks on it, we got it back. The last thing the guy said in perfect english when we were leaving was "take care of your stuff" Ya, don't worry that will never happen again. Just another Baja story.
On the way home we camped down the arroyos north of El Rosario on the Pacific. I believe it was km 41. Nice place. Good waves but a little chilly. Our next trip down is in Feb. to see the whales in Scammon's lagoon. We would like someone to travel with. Anyone out there interested? We leave Feb. 13th.
http://picasaweb.google.com/114630261875012854928/Baja2010#
We went down to Baja during Thanksgiving break. We hadn't been down for 2 1/2 years because of all the cartel violence. Plus we have two little guys now and things get put in a different perspective.
We got our visas stamped early A.M. and got directly on the toll road to Ensenada. In Maneadero we were detoured because of a huge parade that closed the highway down. It turns out it was Mexican Independence day. Bicentennial Independence day. Every town we came to had a parade going on. They shut down the highway for these. We found some side roads and arroyos to get around some. And others we had to wait. This set us back of our plan to make it to L A bay in one day. After El Rosario, smooth sailing. We pulled in at dusk to Dagget's camp just for one night while the full moon was rising. My wife and I were so happy to be in Baja again.
The next day we packed up headed south a bit to a secluded beach a friend told me of. Got stuck up to the frame because my FWD wasn't working. It turned out, I had a new steering box put in right before we left and the guy knocked the vacuum connection off the vacuum pump. I traced it back from the axle, put didn't go far enough to find the problem. I had my transfer case rebuilt about a month before and I thought something had gone wrong in there. So after a three hour dig out, we landed on hard ground and popped up. A beautiful white sand beach with not a person in sight. Just what we love about Baja.
The second night the wind came up. I didn't think it was that windy. Well it blew one of our kayaks into the gulf. The next morning when the wind died, we saw it with binoculars about five miles out. Way too far to go and pick it up. We watched it as the wind picked up from the north start heading south. We said "bye bye" kayak and learned once again to secure your stuff in Baja. Years ago I saw the wind take an aluminum boat with an outboard on it and flip it down the beach like it was a piece of paper. So we ran into my friend a couple days later and told him about our loss. He said a kayak washed up at someone's house in the south end of the bay. We went down and found the guy. He said he told the police a kayak washed up in case it may have been an accident. He said the police took it for evidence. So we went into town and there it was in the police yard. After a lot of questions and identifying marks on it, we got it back. The last thing the guy said in perfect english when we were leaving was "take care of your stuff" Ya, don't worry that will never happen again. Just another Baja story.
On the way home we camped down the arroyos north of El Rosario on the Pacific. I believe it was km 41. Nice place. Good waves but a little chilly. Our next trip down is in Feb. to see the whales in Scammon's lagoon. We would like someone to travel with. Anyone out there interested? We leave Feb. 13th.
http://picasaweb.google.com/114630261875012854928/Baja2010#
