Friday, February 15, 2008

Los Barriles

Our stay at Cabos is over. On the road by 8. took the new toll road from the corridor to the aeropuerto in San Jose del Cabo - no one was on it and it went through the hill country just west of the city. Then over the hill, and along the coast of the Sea of Cortez, and set up at camp by noon.

Los Barilles means the Barrels - named because the sailors would bring barrels ashore to fill with water from the artesian wells. It is beautiful here. Not the park, as it was washed away by Hurricane John and they are rebuilding, and it is nothing but a sand parking lot. But they have power and water.




But it is right on the beach




- and it is a perfect walking beach
miles and miles of soft sand. This is obviously a wind surfing area, though the winds were light today.

And the water is that amazing blue - azul in Spanish sound more like it.

Spent the day walking the beach and enjoying the sun. at dinnertime, we noticed it was getting chilly and we changed to jeans - it was 22 - I think we have acclimatized nicely!!