Wild Baja -- Part Six El Desengano and Yubay

After the fox I am back on the dirt road heading for El Desengano.

I find it pretty easy. Some old shafts and cement slabs.

A few corners of adobe walls still stand and wait a minute, what is this?

Why is there a jar with money in it here?

Geocache like some have suggested, but with cash in it?

After walking around for a bit it is time to backtrack just a little and see if I can make it to Tinaja de Yubay.

Four wheel drive is helpful in a couple of spots. Soon a trail comes on the road where it looks like they recently ran a motorcycle race. The follow the road for a couple of miles so it is slow going.

Works out because there is a young buck with velvet covered antlers. 2 Baja deer now.

Soon I drop down into the wash where I set up camp for the night and it is a cold, windy and foggy night.

I am up again with the dawn. After a quick breakfast of coffee and oatmeal I am off to see this water hole.

I end up walking up the wash about miles before turning around and heading out.

Here is what I see...

The first water hole, a triangle with 2 to 3 foot sides.

A little past that a small narrow water hole.

Then a short rock wall up on the north bank which I go check out.

A large rock sitting so it appears to be a rock with lots of rock art in it.

Further up the wash another water hole.

At this point I turn around and head back down and shortly past the first water hole i am seeking shade. I find it near a large boulder with a u shape opening.

It is a minute or so before i realize there is more to the insides then shade.
Someone drove a metal stake into the ground, drilled out some hard volcanic rock and placed it on the stake so it can spin.

CRAZY!

Then it is back to camp and the drive out.

On the way out a white calf runs along a parallel course to the jeep for a few hundred yards. if I would stop so would he, once I started going, so would he. Once I backed up and he ran onto the road in front of me and stared at me until I started going forward again.

It was weird, I wanted to shout out, "Lassie, what is it? Does Billy need help?"

But then he veered off and disappeared into the brush.




PART ONE
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83137

PART TWO
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83138

PART THREE
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83141

PART FOUR
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83142

PART FIVE
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=83143

[Edited on 5-21-2016 by Fatboy]

[Edited on 5-22-2016 by Fatboy]

Quote: Originally posted by David K

Nice photo of the Yubay fig tree! The water does not look very drinkable! I was there in a dry year as well (July 2001), and it was low and lined with bees keeping me from the water (not that I needed a drink like the many people here of the past)! Neal Johns came to Yubay a year and a half later during a wet winter and the tinaja was over-flowing... such diversity from year to year! July 2001 Yubay: http://www.vivabaja.com/van1/page5.html February 2003 Yubay: http://www.vivabaja.com/neal2/page2.html (2 pages)

Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords

Sure did David....the rock over the grinding arrastra was different when we were there. It had a finger hole or stick hole to use as a handle to turn the grinding rock. There was a "window" in a rock wall that led to a view of another painting there too. Fig tree looks like it needs water. I understand that tree is the most northern location for the Zalate or Ficus palmeri. Next person there needs to water it!