To Bahia Concepcion

We spent five days at the most beautiful place we have yet to see on the Baja peninsula. The pictures do not do it any sort of justice. This bay was our goal. This is how far south we wanted to make it, and we did! We met up with Tim and Victoria here again and went for a hike on an island that you can walk to at low tide. It was crazy how clear and blue and beautiful the water was. I'm not kidding you, these pictures make the water look gray compared to how it actually looks in real life...




The sun beat down on us all day long and though it was windy, we were happy as clams. There were some hot springs just around the corner from where we made camp so we walked over there to give ourselves a little R & R and rinse off our unshowered bodies...

 

Every morning there were vendors from the neighboring city that would come by to sell their handmade products, vegetables, fruits, and fish. It was so easy for us to stay on the beach all day! We couldn't even run out of supplies if we tried. We bought some shrimp and Ty peeled and prepped them for dinner one night. 



The next day we were dying of heat when we all the sudden heard the sound of an ice cream truck driving by. He came right up to our trailer to deliver us exactly what we needed. Oh it was heavensent! 



It was the fourth day that we realized we had been seven days without a proper shower. That made me kind of sick to my stomach... so we set up the solar shower and (being too beach lazy to rig up a hook and place it up high) washed our hair squatting in the sand next to our table. Afterwards we felt like a million bucks. We were ready to go watch the superbowl! 


Now, our team (Go Patriots!) lost two weeks ago to Denver so there was no way we were going to root for the Broncos. Little did we realize that most of the people in the Baja are from the west so it was just us and a newly retired couple from Florida (Marsha and Lewis) that were rooting for the panthers.


I suppose it is hard to see from the pictures... but we were the youngest people in the room by at least 35 years. One man from California came over and talked to me and tried to make us feel insecure by asking, "well, don't you feel out of place in a crowded room full of retirees?" I however assured him, "Oh I've worked in plenty of old folks homes, I feel very comfortable here!" He laughed and laughed and went and told his friends who then came over to introduce themselves. Though the game did not end in our favor, we were still happy to have met so many kind people and to have eaten a pretty decent hamburger. 

Location: Bahia de Concepcion, Mexico

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