San Felipe to Punta Bufeo (huge fish!) to Campo Beluga to Bahia de Los Angeles 11/30-12/05

Disclaimer/ apology:

We want to post more, really, but every time we get to an internet cafe, we're stuck with these slow #$%^ing connections. We're looking at ~10 minutes PER PHOTO upload, and we have to pay the whole time. We have TONS of great p

hotos, but until we get a connection where we can upload them, we'll be at one photo per post. We will be returning to these posts to upload the necessary photos, and we'll let you know when we do that. Sorry.

Was along day of driving south of San Felipe, through Puertocitos to a place called Punta Bufeo, which is a small community of mexican fishermen and expats from the US of A. Fun bunch. Lots of nasty roads getting there, and we broke a rear shock and it's mount right off of the Suburban.

 Doesn't seem to matter much; she still drives great. Also got a flat.

 We all caught the first fish of the trip from the shore after getting there in the early evening,  and we ate them. Tasty! We spent the next two nights here, and I caught two incredible fish...

Yellowtail!

this white sea bass was 48" and heavier than Camper. 6 plastic bags full of fish, some of which we gave away, and some of which we're still eating!

The wind came in heavy so we packed it up to head south...

This was a great spot with great people, and we payed $5 per vehicle for the whole stay!

Wednesday, 12/03, we headed down to bahia de san luis gonsagas (actually spelled with the last letter of our alphabet, but the computer's keyboard is broke!)

where we thought we'd stay at Alphonsina's on the bay. It turned out that this was yet another deserted Baja resort looking to make a buck, so we went a bit further south and spent our bucks (ten of them! eeesh.) at Campo Beluga for a night. The wind was up, so no fishing here. We played with Campera la perra for a spell before 10 mexican military men toting submachine guns snuck up on us from the beach to 'make sure we were okay.' No harm no foul, and no $ spent. A quiet night!

The roads get better south of Beluga, now we're up to 35mph; keeping her good and loose. Not so nasty.


We rolled into Bahia de Los Angeles 12/4, and ate at Alexandria's, which prompted a return visit on the way out of town. The bay of LA is absolutely stunning; offshore islands and clear water; but not a great deal of incredible fishing, at least while we were there.

Lots of barracudas caught here, and a great time was had camping at Campo Archelon. an ex turtle farm. Great people, again. We were given fresh oysters by our expat neighbor (running from the law!?) but didn't keep anything we caught. Alex and I found ourselves about 2-3 miles offshore and behind an island when some nasty wind came up. Long paddle back to camp, and Camper took some rogue waves in the face on the back of the kayak. Awesome. James left his kayak paddle here; bummed. Luckily, we're off to the pacific where we can surf! YEEEEEEEE!

Hope all is well back home

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