Day 3 El Requeson South of Mulege BCS Mexico

At 2:22 am I was awake. I decided to look at the stars. They were big and brilliant and looked so close. The stars were casting a reflection in the still water of the bay…so very pretty!

We headed south on Mexico 1 and again saw dolphins in the bay. We stopped to watch them and counted more than 30. They were swimming in a long line, feeding and cavorting.

Enjoy the videos.

Today it was our goal to travel across the peninsula from the bay to the ocean on an improved gravel road. It was 61 km to the town of San Isidro. We traversed the Sierra La Giganta Mountains.

Cool little lantern like blooms.

We saw lots of critters today; lizards, chipmunks, ground squirrels, jackrabbits, hawks, roadrunners, burros, horses, cows, and goats.

The landscape was craggy and rugged and harsh, with lots of sharp edges. The vegetation was scrubby and thorny. It was still and silent but for us. It was though quite beautiful in its desolation and austerity.

San Isidro is a desert oasis fed by the Purisima River. There are date palms and flowers. It was green and lush.

The gravel road dumped us right onto pavement, Route 53, at the edge of town. We took 53 south and turned toward Las Barrancas and the Pacific Ocean.

Lunch spot.

There were osprey nests everywhere. We counted more than a dozen in the small village. They were perched on telephone poles but also on roofs and in vacant buildings. The beach was strewn with lobster heads abandoned by fishermen after the claws and tails were harvested. The heads were almost the size of a football! We saw this little crab scuttling around in the sand.

Goats on the beach?!?

Every school has a fenced yard with a shade shelter.

We turned around and went back the way we came. I drove part of the way.

It was 4pm when we got back to the RV and Lucy, Carol and Brian’s dog, was waiting for us. She is the sweetest and best-behaved dog I have ever met. She joined us for an afternoon snack.

We grilled our dinner and ate outside again this evening. This is the mildest night we have had so far. We watched the sliver of moon dip behind the mountains and then watched the stars pop out. The Milky Way was vibrant. It was the most spectacular night sky we have ever seen.