Baby Turtles?

 

They are pretty darn cute. 

The whole experience of sunset, migrating whales breaching offshore and then the struggle of watching baby turtles attempt to enter the surf. Kind of like me learning to dirtbike, the exhausting floundering around!

Earlier, I rode the KLX over to the mountains. The sandy roads posed no challenges but the arroyo with deep sand and big rocks started to make me sweat!

And of course, some hiking exploring. This area used to be the hub of sugar cane production and export. The old port buildings are fun to climb around…

Should I go down? Of course!

Toosie the explorer. 

Beaches, ATV and more guava

 Hiking in the hills

Is that a camel?

Time for ripping up the sand with Mitchell

Walking into a secret beach through a burnt palm grove

The guava falls from the tree into the blender with tequila

Settling in to Todos Santos

Have a look at our AirBnB

 Todos Santos is located on the west coast, north of Cabo San Lucas. A small artist village sprawling along the coast, with surfing at Cerritos Beach, the Pescadero just north and into Todos. The northern beaches are a turtle egg hatching and releasing site. More on that in days to follow!

We hike, we swim and we explore daily. Yesterday a quick drive up to La Paz and the famous beach "Balandra".

Last night was the first rain I've seen over the years of coming here. Not a hurricane, but a proper amount of water followed by a proper amount of mud on the dirt streets. Love watching Corollas navigate the pot holes....

And of course, we need to stay fed and hydrated!

Guava from Heaven

 Mom and Mitchell arrived! 

A great reunion in the SDJ parking lot and a drive back to Todos Santos wrapped up the travel day from snow to sun. 

This morning we hiked and then swam in some crashing waves. 

Now, I sit in my office writing this under a guava tree that continues to drop ripe fruit. 

Sigh…

Todos Santos

 Driving down from La Ventana to Todos Santos, I stopped to stretch my legs at Il Truinfo, a historic gold mining town in the mountains. 

While stomping around there were signs pointing off the beaten track to tour a gold mine. Unfortunately, you had to make a group of minimum 4, call a number then wait a Mexican 10 minutes.

Fortunately, I made some hiking friends from Arizona and we called the magic number. Down into an abandonned gold mine we go!

They used kids in the 1800's because they could fit better in the tunnels. I suggested some names of former students from JO for a workterm. I also know two kids, two doors down on St. Catherines St. who could be put to work next time they don't want to practice piano.

They'd fit 4 kids in that bucket - 30m down for the day!

Naturally, after all this activity, I would need an expresso, treat and off to the beach!

Time to settle for a month in Todos Santos with mom and some special visitors 💗