Camp site

Our camp site was right on top of the San Andreas fault. Notice the mountains in the background: the peak on the left is intact , those on the right are loose boulders, shattered by the earthquakes from the fault below.

The desert

Just behind our beach front was a beautiful desert, filled with various cactus and exotic plants. A very rare ring tail cat lives here, we saw their foot prints . The tall cactus is the Cordon , the other is the candelabra cactus,

Santos camping

A few more pics of our camp ground

Santos island

Our camp was on a uninhabited island , a World Heritage Site due to its unique biodiversity and pristine state. Besides tents for us guests, there we're two cook tents plus other misc tents. Our beds were cots with sheets and Mexican blankets. We ate under a sun cover, we had a 2 mile beach to ourselves

Island

Today we depart for Santos Island for our camping/kayak adventure. We had dinner in La Paz last nite and met our fellow campers, five other couples. They all seem to be in there fifties. We leave the resort this morning in two small power boats for a 3 hr ride to an unihabited island in Sea of Cortez. We will use the island as a base camp to , kayak,dive,hike, etc, There will be no Internet. I will be back in a few days and log in here with an update.

La Paz bar

This bar looked interesting ,Karen vetoed entering

Lunch

We stopped at a resturant that we were told was good. We both had grilled fish, rice and a salad . The salad was all local with nice ripe tomatoes . Meal came with hot corn tortillas ( although tempted, we didn't touch the salad, raw veggies/dressing can be crawling with pathogens ) . The meal was delicious . The menu involved a lot of guessing , prices in pasos.