I have found myself in places I should not have been, and have been closely scrutinized. I think it was a "who are you, why are you here, and we
really don't like you here" message. Twice when stopped for lunch along the coast before La Lobera - there's a hut thing I got too close too - a
truck stopped on the highway to see what I was doing - they watched me. Twice. Same experience, same place. Another time, I was camped en route to
Punta Baja. Chick came cruising by in a truck looking at me - not friendly. There's a dirt road from the beach to the Punta Baja road where I was
camped - likely an offloading beach. That same camping spot, I heard gunshots and cars driving really fast across the valley on the Canada Santo Tomas
road. The hut is likely for storage, pick-up and onward. There's a similar hut south of Punta Baja at El Reyado wash on the point. Creepy. DK
provided a photo excursion of his trip inland from El Soccoro. One of the photos was a curious camp scene, looked like someone in the middle of
cooking a meal, but nowhere to be found. The camp had a view to the coast - a lookout for traffikers? Definitely this corridor is a hot spot. One
night camping just south of the military base near La Gringa, there were trucks driving fast up and down the road from 1:00 am to 3:00 am. About 15
years ago, a kayak trip guide stopped doing trips around there because he would find drug bales floating around the Gulf awaiting pick-up. He didn't
want to get mistakenly involved.
Thing is, if we're aware of where incidents might occur and what could happen, what the activity might entail, we can stay out of trouble. Bad guys
stopping tourists with guns and asking you for a ride is taking it to a new level I'd say. And shootouts on Mex. 1 is pretty brazen. jbstevens: these
are tourist routes, just go from point A to point B during daylight hours. Don't forget, regular families and citizens live in these areas too. Go a
little further to Bahia de LA for the beach. |
