David K
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Hello Everyone, 4 days in Baja was on the menu...
I will try and download photos and post a trip report before I leave again in a couple days for my next Baja Bound Map/Guide expedition.
In brief, we had a family vacation on Shell Island with our grandson (3 years old) having his first Baja trip.
Because Shell Island is surrounded by water and has the 'bottomless' sand beach, a good, no, a great 4WD vehicle is needed and my stepson Josh nom
longer has a 4WD. We made it all work with super packing in my Tacoma.
We got onto the island just before peak high tide on Friday and got back home last night. The weather was perfect. 77-80 degrees, just a nice breeze,
no white caps on the water. The first two nights were damp with high humidity but Sunday night was dry.
Got the truck washed in San Felipe (tons of sticky sea mud), had fish tacos and passed by Robbie Gordon and other pre-runners for next Saturday's Baja
500 just north of San Felipe where the race course hugs the highway for a few hundred yards.
On the negative side, we lost one box on the way down and drove back north about 60 miles to where we thought it fell off. On Sunday morning, Josh was
hit by a stingray way out between sand bars... that was super bad, very painful. I applied tea tree oil to kill any bacteria infection and then hot
hot water for the next couple of hours until the pain was manageable. He was on his feet by the afternoon.
The border wait at Tecate was long, as expected for a holiday (yesterday). 2 hrs. 45 min. beginning at 5:21 pm. No secondary... despite out super big
load of camping gear.
Anyway, I will put a link here to the photos/ trip report.
I hope you all had a great weekend and with less drama!
EDIT: I have my photos downloaded, and to some your guy's relief, I don't have a lot! I am trying to enhance the color on Photobucket, but that site
is being slow at the moment...
[Edited on 5-30-2017 by David K]
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chuckie
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Too bad trip got shortened...Stingray bites are ugly..
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David K
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The stingray strike happened Sunday morning. Josh spent the next several hours in the shade of our camp recovering but was on his feet that evening
and we left as planned the following morning. While painful, Josh still helped in taking down camp and loading it onto my truck. Josh plans on seeing
a doctor today... the wound is still bleeding a bit and may need stitches. We saw no sign of any barb in the wound after all the hot water
applications. It got bandaged up with Neosporin on the wound.
EDIT: TRIP REPORT and PHOTOS posted, here: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=86699
[Edited on 5-30-2017 by David K]
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sancho
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Quote: Originally posted by David K  |
The weather was perfect. 77-80 degrees, just a nice breeze, no white caps on the water
[Edited on 5-30-2017 by David K] |
Fairly cool for last of May in SF, once saw 103, May 5.
Was a post on fb, SF about a guy who lost a dog
due to a puffer fish along the shore, I suppose a person
could step on one while wading also.
Although he might have ate the puffer, don't know if
spines could do that
[Edited on 5-30-2017 by sancho]
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chuckie
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I got hit in the shinbone, barb stayed in, broken off...Painful..ouchy..Doc in Mulege messed with it for a good while getting it out...Hope Josh is
Ok.
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BigBearRider
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...and it's 50K.
I stepped on one in Punta Chivato two summers ago. It stung me on the top of my foot, and it hurt for a couple of hours.
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