Hello Friends
Right now we are in Mulege and I am having issues typing on this keyboard because the shift key is so small that I hit the wrong key every time I want to capitalize. Also, some of the other buttons are in different places. But this place is really great, a nice small town by the sea of cortez. We went kayaking yesterday and the water was so beautiful and clear. There were lots of fish and starfish and birds. It was beautiful. The owner of the restaurant/bar on the camp property let us use the kayaks for free. A guy named luke went out with us. We met him he night before at the restaurant. The owner gave us a free round and we all sat around listening to music and talking. We rocked out to Avril lavigne, alanis morrisette, and some oldish pop punk music. He was so excited that we wanted to listen to his music. We met some great new people. Love it!
On Tuesday, we went whale watching and it was more amazing than I could have imagined. We were in a smallish motor boat and the lagoon was filled with whales. You could see their spouting water everywhere. At first, they went away when the boat came near, but at the end a mama and baby came right up to the boat and were playing and going from one side of the boat to the other. Jack was able to touch a barnacle on one of them. It was incredible. I cant post any pictures because I am not using Jacks computer but hopefully sometime soon I can get some up on here and facebook. On the way into the lagoon, we passed a salt plant. It was crazy to see these mountains of salt with bulldozers on top. And also to see the salt being poured onto barges and crusing out onto the ocean.
Today or tomorrow we are headed to Loreto and then on the La Paz. We have been gone for 11 days now. It feels like 2!
For Devon: As far as birds go, here are the ones I know: Pelicans, seagulls, osprey. Here are some that I am guessing: boobies (black, and sort of skim across the water when they fly), cormorants(?). Also yesterday we saw a bird with this long tail that split into 2 that moved around while it flew. The guy we were with said he thought it was a scavenger and that it followed the other birds and ate their leftovers. Whaddya think? Oh yeah, we saw a little blue parakeet(?) just hanging out by the side of the road in some town. It was strange.
Love and miss all of you!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Mexico Dos
Hola amigos!
Tonight we are camping in the van in a small RV park in Guerrero Negro. We left Bahia De Los Angeles this morning after a little sadness that the sea turtle research station was closed. That was one of the big reasons we went there. We must learn to call places before he head off to them. But Bahia LA is beautiful albeit a little too windy for me. But I tire of wind easily after growing up in Hood River. Apparently this is one of the windiest times of the year there. We found a really nice beach this morning and wished we had camped on that side of the town. We took a long walk yesterday in the desert to try to find an abandoned mine, but we could not locate it. We had a most delicious dinner night before last at the campsites restaurant and a huge margarita while watching the Rock in "spy kids" (at least I think thats what movie it was). There was a damn mosquito in the van both nights. It didn't suck my blood as much as I thought it would, it just found joy in buzzing in my ear every half hour. I dont think that town ever sleeps, they just keep fishing and fishing... But I did get to see a lot of pelicans which are my most favorite bird.
Tomorrow we are going whale watching for 3 hours. We have to be there at 7:30 in the morning, which if you know me, means pain and suffering for everyone around for a good hour in the after I wake up. But I am really excited to see some baby whales (cross your fingers) and some mama whales. Then after that we are off towards Mulege. I doubt we will make it that far so we will probably stop and camp in Santa Rosalia.
Mexico is a little hard for me to be in sometimes because of the huge number of dogs and cats that roam the streets and are not taken care of. I have seen a couple little skinny kitties that just broke my heart. I get so close to just scooping them up and taking them with me, but that wont really work. The dogs are sad too because they get diseased and mangy and they make me almost cry. And they are everywhere.
My camera lens has dust or something all up in the inside of it where I cant get to. I need a solution for this, and fast...It shows up in the lighter colored pictures and kinda bums me out. I seem to always be having camera issues...
I'm not posting pictures tonight because it is too much work and I dont have the energy or patience to do it. Maybe next time!
Love to you all!
Tonight we are camping in the van in a small RV park in Guerrero Negro. We left Bahia De Los Angeles this morning after a little sadness that the sea turtle research station was closed. That was one of the big reasons we went there. We must learn to call places before he head off to them. But Bahia LA is beautiful albeit a little too windy for me. But I tire of wind easily after growing up in Hood River. Apparently this is one of the windiest times of the year there. We found a really nice beach this morning and wished we had camped on that side of the town. We took a long walk yesterday in the desert to try to find an abandoned mine, but we could not locate it. We had a most delicious dinner night before last at the campsites restaurant and a huge margarita while watching the Rock in "spy kids" (at least I think thats what movie it was). There was a damn mosquito in the van both nights. It didn't suck my blood as much as I thought it would, it just found joy in buzzing in my ear every half hour. I dont think that town ever sleeps, they just keep fishing and fishing... But I did get to see a lot of pelicans which are my most favorite bird.
Tomorrow we are going whale watching for 3 hours. We have to be there at 7:30 in the morning, which if you know me, means pain and suffering for everyone around for a good hour in the after I wake up. But I am really excited to see some baby whales (cross your fingers) and some mama whales. Then after that we are off towards Mulege. I doubt we will make it that far so we will probably stop and camp in Santa Rosalia.
Mexico is a little hard for me to be in sometimes because of the huge number of dogs and cats that roam the streets and are not taken care of. I have seen a couple little skinny kitties that just broke my heart. I get so close to just scooping them up and taking them with me, but that wont really work. The dogs are sad too because they get diseased and mangy and they make me almost cry. And they are everywhere.
My camera lens has dust or something all up in the inside of it where I cant get to. I need a solution for this, and fast...It shows up in the lighter colored pictures and kinda bums me out. I seem to always be having camera issues...
I'm not posting pictures tonight because it is too much work and I dont have the energy or patience to do it. Maybe next time!
Love to you all!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Mexico
Hola from Baja!
Tonight we are in El Rosario at this awesome motel:
This place is only 27.00 a night, about 350 pesos! There are more pictures of the room, but uploading here takes forever and I want to post pictures of other things.
Last night we were near San Quintin at El Pabellon RV park. It was right on the beach. Here was the view from our van:
So far, Baja has been pretty fantastic. The people are friendly, the food is great and its beautiful. Although, the weather is a bit colder than I was expecting. But tomorrow we are heading to Bahia de Los Angeles where it is supposed to be warmer. But I am having a hard time looking up weather in Mexico in english so I actually dont know. The language barrier is definitely tough at times. A lot of people know english, but when they don't, I struggle badly. Perhaps I should have learned more spanish before I left. Here is Jack learning some spanish:
The first campground we were in was about 20 miles off the highway on this crazy unpaved road. It was an awesome place that was free, right on the ocean. The tidepools were pretty amazing. We saw big starfish, fish, crabs of all sorts and lots of beautiful anemone and urchins. I also saw this crazy pink thing that looked like it had a bunch of arms on it. I dont know if starfish have more than 5 arms but I dont know what else it could have been. It rained super crazy our second night there and the road out was way worse than when we drove in. We were almost out on the highway when we hit a puddle that was a lot deeper than we thought (it was like a small lake!) and the van stopped because the engine had been flooded. So we had to sit there for quite awhile until it dried out. But I must say we had the cutest roadblocks ever on the way in:
Baby cows! Cute!
Well, I am going to go lay down in our big ol' king size bed for the evening.
Miss everyone!
Lots of love
Tonight we are in El Rosario at this awesome motel:
This place is only 27.00 a night, about 350 pesos! There are more pictures of the room, but uploading here takes forever and I want to post pictures of other things.Last night we were near San Quintin at El Pabellon RV park. It was right on the beach. Here was the view from our van:
So far, Baja has been pretty fantastic. The people are friendly, the food is great and its beautiful. Although, the weather is a bit colder than I was expecting. But tomorrow we are heading to Bahia de Los Angeles where it is supposed to be warmer. But I am having a hard time looking up weather in Mexico in english so I actually dont know. The language barrier is definitely tough at times. A lot of people know english, but when they don't, I struggle badly. Perhaps I should have learned more spanish before I left. Here is Jack learning some spanish:
The first campground we were in was about 20 miles off the highway on this crazy unpaved road. It was an awesome place that was free, right on the ocean. The tidepools were pretty amazing. We saw big starfish, fish, crabs of all sorts and lots of beautiful anemone and urchins. I also saw this crazy pink thing that looked like it had a bunch of arms on it. I dont know if starfish have more than 5 arms but I dont know what else it could have been. It rained super crazy our second night there and the road out was way worse than when we drove in. We were almost out on the highway when we hit a puddle that was a lot deeper than we thought (it was like a small lake!) and the van stopped because the engine had been flooded. So we had to sit there for quite awhile until it dried out. But I must say we had the cutest roadblocks ever on the way in:
Baby cows! Cute!
Well, I am going to go lay down in our big ol' king size bed for the evening.
Miss everyone!
Lots of love
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