SAN QUINTIN TO CATAVINA, B.C., MEXICO

After coffee we drive a short distance into the dunes until we reach the Pacific where we give the dogs a good run.  So far the beaches here have been pretty deserted.  We breakfast in El Rosario where ordering is an adventure since no-one speaks English.  I order huevos con tocino (bacon and eggs).  We leave the coast and diaganol southeast into the mountains.  The land quickly becomes arrid and cactus become the main plant.  We enter "Valle de los Cirios" a huge protected area.  We take another cheap RV site at Rancho Santa Ines.  We take a short hike across a dry river bed and up a small canyon.  There are more varieties of cactus than we can count and various tracks we don't recognize.  We see two lizards and a hummingbird, our first wildlife.  Peggy sees a hawk on top of a cardon cactus (Pachycerous pringlei).  She uses her binoculars and declares it to be a BBH (Big Brown Bird).  We have supper at a small cantina nearby as the wind starts to blow from the north.

Beach at Cielto Lindo Motel and RV Park, San Quintin, B.C., Mexico

Home sweet home at the beach

Poudre at the beach

Boojum tree (cirio) in the Sonoran Desert Vegetation Region, Catavina, B.C., Mexico

Cactus in the Sonoran Desert Vegetation Region, Catavina, B.C., Mexico

Cactus in the Sonoran Desert Vegetation Region, Catavina, B.C., Mexico

Barrel cactus in the Sonoran Desert Vegetation Region, Catavina, B.C., Mexico

Cactus in the Sonoran Desert Vegetation Region, Catavina, B.C., Mexico

Scenic view in the Sonoran Desert Vegetation Recion, Catavina, B.C., Mexico

Catavina boulder fields, Catavina, B.C., Mexico

Cardon cactus (Pachycerous pringlei)

This is how gas is sold if there is no Pemex available

View from Rancho Santa Inez campground, Catavina, B.C., Mexico

Torote (Bursera microphyllo)

Cardon Cactus and boojum tree (cirio)

Biznaga, ferocactus peninsulae, Barrell Cactus

Paloadan (Fouquieria digeutii), Adams Tree

Cardon cactus (Pachycerous pringlei)

Peggy is somewhere in the rocks

Garambullo (Laphocereus schottii) Old Man Cactus

Cardon cactus and palm trees

Home sweet home at Santa Inez campground, Catavina, B.C., Mexico

Moon rise at Santa Inez campground, Catavina, B.C., Mexico