Cabo Pulmo

Location Description

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Jasper, Jon, Monica and I all converged on Cabo del San...
In the morning, Jasper (left) prepares desayuno:...
Monica staring off at the sun, still low in the sky...
Jasper, enjoying his morning ritual.
Jon had spent the last week in Cabo fortifying himself...
Monica and instant coffee.
Never too early for beer on the beach, I suppose. Check...
Los cuatro amigos.
Our campsite from a distance.
Monica jumping.
On Saturday afternoon, I took the truck to town to...
Awesome map showing dive locations. We mostly stayed...
El Capitan towing our boat into the water.
Nothing wrong with this plan at all, right? What could...
So apparently after the truck gets the boat as close to...
Step 1: back up truck until it contacts boat.
Step 2: Hit boat.
Step 3, drive in reverse until boat is sufficiently in...
Loading up the boat. Actually, I forgot a crucial step....
Loading the last of gear.
Area where we would be diving. These same rock...
Kit, my dive partner. Even though I didn't have the...
Aw, cute a stripey fish.
Same guy, headed a different way.
I'd really like to learn how to edit my photos to make...
A bit closer and in shallower water.
Fish running away from me! All the pictures I seem to have...
Fish nibbling away at something or other.
Lots of fish!
Another fish running away.
If you look really really closely, you can see a very...
My dive master. Lucky! She has a neoprene hood! The...
Lots of colorful fish swimming about. Need to learn the...
More fish.
One more shot.
A colorful school of fish.
Always trying to swim away from me.
Swimming away again...
In this one a fish is headed right toward me! But since...
Water (and snorkel masks) apparently do funny things to my skin.
Ok, here's a long fin angel fish noodling along. Let me...
A little bit better.
Hey, wait, stop! Come back!
Me, again.
Can you see the lobster hiding in here? No? That's...
Sea lions. Never got a shot of one of these guys...
Headed back to shore. During the deeper part of my dive...
Upon my return from my little scuba outing, I found this...
While I was away, apparently a wind-resistant kitchen...
Sign near our camp site.
At night the temperature really dropped, so we built a fire.
Jasper, very excited about his fire, apparently.
Since no meal is complete without a menu item that is...
Jasper eating a fajita.
Jasper, less, than impressed with his Mickey.
Yum! Hot Mickey!
We really made an impressive fire! It probably could...
Jasper, standing next to his fire.
Jon, on Sunday morning. Sadly we have to go home today,...
Jasper cuts green onions for our morning omelet con soyrizo.
Jon does not look very excited about his breakfast beer.
Chef John, cooking the breakfast.
Jon.
Jasper.
Pouring out some beer for our dead (or workaholic)...
After packing up camp, we hopped back in the Nissan...
Monica, about to hop aboard.
Jasper, piloting our noble steed south down the east...
Baja: it's sort of exactly how I'd pictured it would be:...
Los Frailes -- the bay in which I went scuba diving yesterday.
Sadly we were running short on time, so we didn't have...
My scuba boat, from the day before.
Jon, standing on the Frailes beach, with our truck in...
Monica, fiddling with her camera. It had the weirdest...
Estacion del Gentrificacion.
Mom, how many mansions down here could you have bought...
Apparently this is how you get (fresh) water in these parts.
Monica snaps a picture of a funny looking cow.
Looked like a neat house.
Cattle grazing on the beach.
Palapas. Looks very relaxing.
Aww, horse and baby horse.
The scenery along this drive was stunning. We just...
More scenery.
This guy might not have much money but his life looks...
This makes me feel like I could walk forever!
Monica, Jon and Jasper.
Monica walking on the beach.
Monica, somewhere on the southern coast of Baja del Sur.
Jasper and Jon, getting ready to pack back into the truck.
More palapas.
Donkeys?
Nice ride...
Real estate speculation?
Skinny cows...
Great sign. (It's a surfboard.)
As we headed south the surf picked up and surfing became...
More surfers.
View of some old volcanoes (I'm guessing) back closer to...
Cactus or cross or cell phone tower?
Flying home! View over Baja del Sur. Amazing landscape!
Crazy geological formations! Our flight pattern was...
About the largest sign of industry we saw the whole way.
Actually, I suppose this was the biggest sign of...
Beautiful totally deserted islands.
More islands with nothing on them (that green-looking...
Monica looking excited to be reading her book.
Mouth of the Colorado River.
Colorado River.