Baja California with the Z's - Day 3: T-Dub'ing with Lori Z.

A much less windy day today at our boondocking site north of San Felipe in Baja California!  Much more warmth was felt even though today's high temperature would be only 61 degrees Fahrenheit!

We all went into "basking lizard" mode during the warm and mostly windless periods.

Shortly after 1PM, Lori and I, on our respective TW200s rode from camp and south towards San Felipe seeking to check out the area between the highway and the nearest mountain range called Picacho del Diablo: Devil's Peak.

After a short detour through some housing development, we headed further south on Mexico Federal Highway 5 and found the right road.  We basically followed signs for Colonia Morelia, for future reference.

Once we were past the perimeter fence that I believe encloses El Rancho Dorado community; it was a sandy, rocky dirt road which we took for about 14-15 miles of sometimes "interesting" riding.

As we were headed west, the lighting wasn't conducive for good pictures since we were shooting towards the steadily lowering afternoon sun.

Shortly before we reached our turnaround point, we saw this sign at a road junction.  We mistakenly thought it referred to some nearby structure.  It turned out to be a rehab center further down the road, probably in Colonia Morelia I think.

Arch of Triumph?

El Picacho del Diablo's top was shrouded in clouds

and backlit by the afternoon sun.

photo courtesy of Lori Z.

photo courtesy of Lori Z.

A vain attempt in unfavorable light conditions to

get a view of the mountains near Devil's Peak at

our turnaround point.

As we retraced our way back to the highway, we stopped here for shots of the not too distant Sea of Cortez:

Flowers were photographed by both Lori and I:

Apricot Mallow

Mentzelia involucrata

photo courtesy of Lori Z.

Some sights along the way:

Curious rock pile with some trails that could be explored.

One of several watch towers we saw within the 

perimeter fencing of El Ranch Dorado gated community.

We have no idea why the gated community would need watch towers.  They didn't appear to be in use or being manned.  Curious.

The ride back was into a cold wind from the ocean.  Still, we made it back to the highway and shortly after that back to camp with no issues.  A good ride overall!

Tonight's sunset was pretty good:

Yep, that's Picacho del Diablo