To San Ignacio

We continued further south to a small town called San Ignacio. We camped at this beautiful campsite called Los Petates that was right on the edge of a pond. The pond brought all sorts of ducks, bull frogs, swans, and as I like to call them "birds of prey".  It is actually crazy the bird watching that can be done in this region. We see hawks, ospreys, eagles, falcons, etc on a daily basis. Today we even caught a bird of prey snatch a duck right out of the pond and carry it over to kill and eat it... Wild.

 

This town is an oasis in the desert. It is completely surrounded by date palm trees even though north, south, east, and west of it is all desert. I mean dry desert (you should see the cracks on the heels of my feet...gross). Anyway, the mission church is this town is one of the things that drew us in because the guidebook boasts of it having FOUR foot wide walls. We totally thought it was an exaggeration, but we had to check it out ourselves. 

Look at the thickness of this wall! I do not know what they were expecting to happen to this church... but we can be sure once and for all, it is going to be around for a long long time.