8-11-06 Nuevo Mazatlan Weekend
When extreme high tides prevented access to Shell Island, Nuevo Mazatlan makes a great back up camp just 4 miles away. Lunch in Ensenada We decide to go via Hwy. 3 from Ensenada which makes a great stop for tacos… and mariachi music! Elizabeth and Sarah get an ear full! Ensenada is home to a […]
4th of July, 2009 On Shell Island
Elizabeth and I really enjoy the heat of summer and the warm Sea of Cortez to swim in. Two months earlier on our last visit, the water was still a bit brisk: http://vivabaja.com/509 My 2005 Toyota Tacoma has been a great vehicle for Baja. Looking north from our camp. Percebu is in the distance, across […]
Fifteen Fabulous Days to the Tip of Baja and Back, 2012
Baja California July 2012: 2,622 miles Day 1 (Saturday July 14th): To Shell Island via Tecate, Mexicali, San Felipe. Day 2 (Sunday): To Bahía Concepción via Coco’s Corner, Calamajué, Guerrero Negro, Santa Rosalía. Days 3, 4 (Monday, Tuesday): At Bahía Concepción plus Mulegé dinner. Day 5 (Wednesday July 18th): To La Paz via Loreto and […]
July 2009 Baja Trip to San Ignacio, Mulege, Loreto and More!
July 18, 2009 (OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY) Lobster dinner at Baja Jardines Restaurant, San Quintin. Beer break in the Vizcaino Desert along Highway 1 on Day 2 of our vacation. IGNACIO SPRINGS Bed & Breakfast entrance… Located in the oasis of San Ignacio. The San Ignacio River at Ignacio Springs. Our yurt Mongolian style canvas homes […]
July 2007 Baja Trip
July 2007 Baja Trip Elizabeth and I enjoyed an eight day trip down Baja that began with the El Rosario Cultural Festival. Our vacation included a visit to the Las Pintas petroglyth and fossil grotto, a 200 mile dirt road down the Pacific side of Baja, a visit to Bahia Asuncion and Shari and Juan’s […]
7-21-06 Baja-Rosario Cultural Festival
The second annual festival in El Rosario was lots of fun for all who attended! Antonio Muñoz (‘BajaCactus’) addressing the attendees of the second ‘Baja-Rosario Cultural Festival’ at the second site of the Rosario mission. Cowboys (vaqueros) from San Quintin and ‘Nomads’ from California at the opening ceremony. Antonio talks with Anthony and Rob of […]
Baja-Rosario Cultural Festival and over to ‘Shell Island’ Summer Vacation July, 2005
Baja Nomads take a desert tour from El Rosario The squarecircle, Surfer Jim, Bob H, Hook, Frigatebird, Santiago, Baja Nomad, Nicolita, Neal Johns, follow David K and Baja Angel on a drive into the Baja desert. El Cardonal : 30°8.09′, -115°33.68′(WGS84) At the site of an abandoned ranch next to a large cardón forest, we […]
July ’04: Camp Gecko, La Gringa, Las Animas
Our 4th of July weekend, 2004 vacation was great. Not because of any great desert discoveries, but because it was shared with good friends, and my two children, and we had perfect weather. We did visit Las Animas for the first time and will return there. We were in Baja for five days. My son […]
L.A. Bay, San Borja, & Cataviña Pictographs in July, 2003
On June 28, my daughter Sarah and I drove south to enjoy a week vacation with friends at Camp Gecko. A one day excursion to Mision San Borja and two visiting stations of that mission (Santa Ana and San Ignacito) was made. On the way home (July 5), Sarah took several photos of the colorful […]
6-18-06 Shell Island & Matomí Canyon
A weekend in Baja on a beautiful beach, good food in a desert village and a trip up the entire Arroyo Matomí road… That’s what Elizabeth and I did last June, 2006. Porpoise bones? Elizabeth with one of the bones… Another beautiful day in Baja! Looking south a low tide… Shade is important, and easy […]
The 2006 Baja 500 + Mision Santa Catalina
The 2006 Baja 500 + Mision Santa Catalina The weekend of June 2-4, 2006 was the running of the Baja 500 off road race out from Ensenada into the mountains and Pacific coastline of northern Baja. Our friend Roy ‘The Squarecircle’ invited us to assist him at a radio relay near Valle de la Trinidad […]
Memorial Day 2013: Shell Island (Between San Felipe and Puertecitos)
With only a couple exceptions, we typically go to Shell Island over Memorial Day weekend. The weather is great, the sea water is not as warm as we like best, but okay for short swims, and we mostly need to get away from civilization by the time late May rolls around. We had not planned […]
Memorial Day Weekend May 2009
This year, Josh and Kelly joined Elizabeth and I for some beach camping out on Shell Island… Km. 26, south of San Felipe. Shade is important in the desert! We love the beach… and there is plenty of beach here to love! Elizabeth gets some reading relax time in. Josh tries fishing at low tide. […]
Shell Island Memorial Day ’08
Shell Island Memorial Day ’08 The beautiful sand coast south of San Felipe is a favorite Baja camping destination. The barrier island created by tidal lagoons between Percebu and Bahia Santa Maria has been my favorite place to beach camp for over 30 years… I named it ‘Shell Island’. One fine Baja beach! Before finding […]
Memorial Day Weekend in El Rosario 5-27-05 To 5-29-05
Mision Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Viñadaco Founded on July 20, 1774 as the first Dominican mission in (Baja) California. In 1802 the spring went dry, so the mission moved down the valley to its second site close to the river, known today as ‘Rosario Abajo’. To La Bocana Beach Using the high and dry […]