Baja California with the Z's - Day 2

 Thursday, February 23

Our first Baja California Sunrise:

I would find Lori Z. enjoying the sunrise in the gazebo

I managed to "collect" a bunch of spiny items

Later, after lunch, I rode out with Yagi, my TW200 to explore the public beach area.  The road to it, and by it was quite sandy but not too deep.  I simply took it easy and meandered.  I even took Yagi onto the beach itself for a bit.

There was a long sand bar, off to the left of Yagi in the above pic, onto which I walked to get closer to some birds.

Still on the sand bar, I shot towards the beach:

Beach front property!

I could see Stewie from the sand bar

Back on the beach....

Looking up and down the almost empty beach

I returned to the trail that leads to the beach from our campsite and posed Yagi with small patches of purple flowers:

Desert Sand Verbena

On the way to the flower patches, I stopped to take pictures of this Heron who I saw fly by and settle somewhat near me.  

Soon as I got back, I decided to go for a hike, both to explore the area around camp and to get my daily 40 minutes of doctor recommended exercise.

Some of the Ocotillo Cacti are starting to flower:

Fuzzy looking seaside cactus:

Here's something I didn't expect, I thought it looked like to be the skeletal remains of a crocodile.

The skull was missing and I didn't spend time looking for it either.  I wonder how it got where I found it?  No visible tire tracks near it and it was pretty far from the trails.

Lori Z later guessed it was a dolphin's skeleton, I think she may be right and it would be a more likely find near the Sea of Cortez!

I hiked down to the edge of the plateau that borders the beach area.  Here's picture of the beach side housing on the north side of San Felipe.

A pretty good day overall here in Baja California, hopefully the wind will be less tomorrow and a bit warmer.