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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Cheap Showers, Good Restrooms, Clean beach, just North of San Felipe
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OR, one could take a CJ-5 and go to this type of camping place that made Baja so attractive in the old days (and still today to some of us):
Look closely and you will see Ken Cooke's Jeep!
Access is at Km. 26, south of San Felipe (at low tide, as it is an island) ENJOY!
[Edited on 9-8-2013 by David K]
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bajajeffrey
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Percebu can handle bus size motor homes, with careful driving from highway 5, Look for the Large Rancho Percebu sign around kilometer 20. feel free to
check out shell island but you might want to get some local knowledge on how to access it, the tidal zone is not drivable.
Motorhome spots are dry with shade palapa and cement slab some with tables.
Best spots are behind the cantina overlooking the Cortez, Best Sunrise in Mexico.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajeffrey
Percebu can handle bus size motor homes, with careful driving from highway 5, Look for the Large Rancho Percebu sign around kilometer 20. feel free to
check out shell island but you might want to get some local knowledge on how to access it, the tidal zone is not drivable.
Motorhome spots are dry with shade palapa and cement slab some with tables.
Best spots are behind the cantina overlooking the Cortez, Best Sunrise in Mexico. |
This is good advice from Jeff...
The access road to Shell Island, 3 miles south of Percebu, can still go underwater at high tide and be a muddy mess... again why I think calling it
Shell Island is both more accurate and romantic then Shell Beach...
Here is edm-1's 4WD motorhome with front and rear locking differentials stuck trying to get onto the island:
The nearby fisherman's 4WD truck rescued Art and saved the day!
Looking west, towards Baja, from Shell Island at high tide:
This is where the 'road' from Hwy. 5 (Km. 26) reaches the island... but it is high tide... and it is an island!:
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Fred
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Great info. But, guys like me take notes for later use and would love it if you could give the camping rate of these places. Just a thought.
Thanks for your help,
Fred
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David K
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Fred, things can change in Baja from last trip we take to the first time you go there... Maybe if there were multiple places to camp in a single area,
then a rating would help.
Now San Felipe area could be such a place... but you have so many ideas here of what is a good campground... Pete's Camp (El Paraiso) seems to get
high points here... but for me it has always been noisy, crowded, dusty... and I don't drive for hours to just camp in the middle of a mini city or
off road park (unless THAT is why you drove for hours)!
So, best to be aware of what's there and what it was like in the past... but understand when you get there, it may be a different place altogether!
In the end, any place in Baja is still better than any other place, right?!
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bajaguy
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Choices
http://www.bajaquest.com/sanfelipe/baja13b.htm
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willardguy
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I gotta tell ya david, the magic of shell island totally escapes me, but thats the beauty of baja, its different for everyone!
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Fred
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Great points Terry. I would just like to record what the rates are for now and keep them in my travel Baja book. I always update it as things
change, but I have to start somewhere. I have not camped in that area much. Plus places always close. Also Rocky Point is another place I have not
updated in years. I am just a note taker. LOL I always jot down the small hole-in-the-wall places that nomads have eaten at.
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rocmoc
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Thanks for all of the great info & PICS! Not even going to try and get to shell island, too big & heavy. But we will consider taking the
Jeep over. We have decide to spend a week near San Felipe, like the quiet locations, drive down to Gonzaga Bay with the Jeep and return with the
Motorhome after we decide where we want to camp in Gonzaga. Keep up the post & PICS tho, really enjoying!
Thanks again,
rocmoc n AZ/Mexico
rocmoc n AZ/Mexico
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
I gotta tell ya david, the magic of shell island totally escapes me, but thats the beauty of baja, its different for everyone! |
Right, different strokes for different folks... Baja has it all!
Solitude, beauty, sand beach, four wheel drive necessary, less than a day's drive to reach, ... are all things that make it a magic place for us.
Obviously my sharing it hasn't changed it's appeal... we are still in solitude when we camp there on holidays. It remains as nice a place to camp in
2013 as it was my first time camping there in 1978!
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Bajajorge
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Read off a San Felipe site this morning that pollution levels off the San Felipe Malecon are on the rise. But then I've been hearing about pollution
levels in the Sea of Cortez all up and down that area due to all the campos septic systems leeching into the water for years now. Just saying
Why do Liberals insist and demand that achievers pay the way for nonachievers who are to lazy to succeed, or are just failures by their own choice?
Criminals prefer unarmed victims, dictators prefer unarmed subjects.
Why do ignorant people continue their blabbering when it only proves to others how stupid they are.
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akshadow
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Campos? I doubt it
I would bet the polution on the Malecon area is more related to the downtown flooding they had in the past couple of weeks, water standing in street
must really over welm the sewer systems that run under it. Also high use in summer on beach by Mexicali people leads to more human waste. Look at
all those small kids in diapers.
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajajorge
Read off a San Felipe site this morning that pollution levels off the San Felipe Malecon are on the rise. But then I've been hearing about pollution
levels in the Sea of Cortez all up and down that area due to all the campos septic systems leeching into the water for years now. Just saying
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Ron San Felipe Oct, Nov. Feb. Mar. April. remainder in Juneau Ak
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4Cata
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Spent a month at Pete's Camp. Loved it--best bar and very good restaurant. Great neighbors, very friendly. Went to a wonderful Dia de los Muertos
party. We rented the home with the great deck over the beach. Only problems were 1. firecrackers many nights scared dogs half to death. Thought
the windows were coming out of frames. 2. Much of Pete's Camp is very old and the septic tanks (with no bottoms in them) have failed and much of the
front rows absolutely reek. You would think you were driving thru a sewage plant.
Agaveros, silk in a bottle, a beautiful bottle!
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