Back from the beach

Had a really great trip on my annual trip to the Pacific coast south of El Rosario. I was there from the 19th to the 28th. Went with my sister (You'll remember her from last year and the 3 flat tires on the way out in her Armada with street tires) and 4 year old neice. She is becoming a good Baja camper and had a lot of fun playing in the water and looking for shells and bones.

Water was 58-60 degrees the first couple of days?.but warmed up to 70+ by the end of the trip. Visibility in the water was at least 30 feet, great skin diving.

There were no waves to speak of where we camped; 2 foot max but I go more for the fishing than the surfing. However, they were perfect for a kayak at low tide when they picked up some height.

Fishing was awesome. Caught white sea bass, yellowfin croaker, corbina, sand bass, and halibut. One day I even caught a bunch of 6 pound bonito, the next day a single yellowtail tuna from the beach in 2 feet of water! We had to let the yellowtail go as I caught it on the morning we were packing up to leave, and we were down to our last cube of ice . We bought/traded some lobster from the fishermen too so there was no lack of excellent eats.

Weather was very nice, some fog in the mornings, 75-85 during the day. Brilliant clear skies at night with lots of stars and no moon. Saw what I think was a huge meteor on either the 19th or 20th (they all run together) Bright white with a green tail and almost as big in diameter as a full moon. It was in the southern sky at around 8:30PM. Could have been a flare from a boat?.but at the coast is fairly uninhabited, I may have been the only one to see it?.. Or maybe it was some little green men from Mars

Got one flat on the way out, bummer as it was 110 degrees, and the hole was too big to patch with a plug.

We saw no other gringos along the coast just the Mexican clamers and lobstermen.

The border SUCKED. The police kept shutting down all the access roads to the border just as we got to the access areas, we looped around numerous times. We finally said to heck with it and crossed over some downed CAUTION tape. It then took another 2 hours to get up to the gate. I was briefly sent to Secondary for 10 minutes. Little did I know what was ahead of me though.....

Got back to my sister's in PB by 4:00, ordered a pizza, unloaded her stuff, waited until 8:00 for the traffic to die down and headed north to Laguna Hills. 20 miles and minutes later traffic on the 5 STOPPED. Turned on the radio and heard a drugged up trucker hauling furniture had crashed and his truck on the 5 in just north of Harbor Drive in Camp Pendleton and ALL traffic was being routed through Camp Pendleton (The crash happened at 3:00 PM and the fire department could not put the fire out, it kept reigniting). I debated if I should turn around and sleep at my sister's or not, but decided to stick it out....BIG mistake. It took me over 4 hours to get up to Harbor Drive in Pendleton (5 miles) and just before I was to be routed through Pendleton the CHP opened up the freeway again. I finally got home at 1:00AM, jumped in the shower (my wife was none too pleased to be awakened at a little after 1:00) and had my head on the pillow by 1:30...

I'll post some pictures, by the weekend